420850120

Foreigners and their food : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law / David M. Freidenreich

Freidenreich, David M.,i1977- [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 325 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

978-0-520-95027-6 ; 0-520-95027-5 ; 978-0-520-25321-6

BE 2500 BD 1250

 

Judentum  Christentum  Islam  Speiseritual  Nahrung  Speisegebot 

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the "other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.