Méndez-Montoya The Theology of Food

Eating and the Eucharist
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0869-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Illuminations: Theory & Religion

The links between religion and food have been known for centuries,and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of therelationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin.Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well astheology, this book unlocks the role food has played withinreligious tradition.
* A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links betweentheology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguinglight
* Draws on examples from different religions: the significance ofthe apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of bread as thebody of Christ; the eating and fasting around Ramadan for Muslims;and how the dietary laws of Judaism are designed to create anawareness of living in the time and space of the Torah
* Explores ideas from the fields of literature, politics, andphilosophy, as well as theology
* Takes seriously the idea that food matters, and that the manyaspects of eating - table fellowship, culinarytraditions, the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions offood - are important and complex, and throw light onboth religion and our relationship to food

Autoren/Hrsg.

Méndez-Montoya, Angel F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vi
Joaquín Racionero Page
Preface ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction. Food Talk: Overlapping Matters 1
1 The Making of Mexican Molli and Alimentary Theology inthe Making 11
2 Sabor/Saber: Taste and the Eros of Cognition 45
3 Being Nourished: Food Matters 77
4 Sharing in the Body of Christ and the Theopolitics ofSuperabundance 113
Conclusion. Food Notes: Prolegomenon to a Eucharistic Discourse157
Index 161

Über Autor(innen)

Angel F. Méndez-Montoya, OP is a member of the SouthernDominican Province in the USA. He currently teaches theology andphilosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, where he isalso the coordinator of the Faith and Culture Program. He is aPh.D. in philosophical theology from the University of Virginia andwas scholar in residence atUniversity of Cambridge.