Book description
The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and
yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship
between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature,
politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role
food has played within religious tradition.
- A fascinating book tracing the centuries-old links between
theology and food, showing religion in a new and intriguing light
- Draws on examples from different religions: the significance of
the apple in the Christian Bible and the eating of bread as the body
of Christ; the eating and fasting around Ramadan for Muslims; and
how the dietary laws of Judaism are designed to create an awareness
of living in the time and space of the Torah
- Explores ideas from the fields of literature, politics, and
philosophy, as well as theology
- Takes seriously the idea that food matters, and that the many
aspects of eating - table fellowship, culinary traditions, the
aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of food - are important
and complex, and throw light on both religion and our relationship
to food
Angel F. Méndez-Montoya,
OP is a member of the Southern Dominican Province in the USA. He
currently teaches theology and philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana,
Mexico, where he is also the coordinator of the Faith and Culture
Program. He is a Ph. D. in philosophical theology from the University of
Virginia and was scholar in residence at University of Cambridge.
