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SUMMARY:Feasting and Fasting: Religious food practices in interaction
DTSTART:20120217T101100Z
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DESCRIPTION:Venue: International Guest House\, Auf der Papenburg 14\, 4480
 1 Bochum\nflyer\nA pdf-file of the reader for the workshop can be obtained
  before and during the conference from Dorothea Weltecke.\nIn all religiou
 s cultures food plays an important role. Food practices integrate communit
 ies\, and they exclude others or even polemicize against them. In this sen
 se\, food is always an element of religious interaction. Strategies of pur
 ity and penance are both connected with eating and fasting. Persecuting in
 stitutions\, like the inquisition in the Latin Church\, were keen on ident
 ifying food practices as a sign of religious deviance. Eating and fasting 
 habits are constantly changing\, and they do not necessarily agree with th
 e norms. On the contrary\, historical and cultural conditions\, interrelig
 ious contacts and other factors contribute to the transformation of ritual
 s and customs.The purpose of the workshop is a comparative debate on the p
 rimary sources provided by the active participants\, which should foster t
 he interdiscipliniary understanding of different religions and their food.
  The workshop will develop comparative and systematic categories for furth
 er research.
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_FF_170212_eng/
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