Food & faith in Christian culture / edited by Ken Albala & Trudy Eden.

Food and faith in Christian culture

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011], ©2011.

vi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

The urban influence : shopping and consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the mid-fourteenth century / Salvatore D.S. Musumeci -- The ideology of fasting in the Reformation era / Ken Albala -- The food police : sumptuary prohibitions of food in the Reformation / Johanna B. Moyer -- Dirty things : bread, maize, women and Christian identity in sixteenth-century America / Heather Martel -- Enlightened fasting : religious conviction , scientific inquiry, and medical knowledge in early modern France / Sydney Watts -- The sanctity of bread : missionaries and the promotion of wheat growing among the New Zealand Maori / Hazel Petrie -- Commensality and love feast : the agape meal in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brethren in Christ Church / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee -- Metaphysics and meatless meals : why food mattered when the mind was everything / Trudy Eden -- Fasting and food habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Antonia-Leda Matalas, Eleni Tourlouki, and Chrystalleni Lazarou -- Divine dieting : a cultural analysis of Christian weight loss programs / Samantha Kwan and Christine Sheikh -- Eating in silence in an English Benedictine monastery / Richard D.G. Irvine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.