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University of California Press
- Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xii-xiii
- Notes on Style and Abbreviations
- pp. xviii-xxi
- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: IMAGINING OTHERNESS
- PART TWO. JEWISH SOURCES ON FOREIGN FOOD RESTRICTIONS: MARKING OTHERNESS
- PART THREE. CHRISTIAN SOURCES ON FOREIGN FOOD RESTRICTIONS: DEFINING OTHERNESS
- PART FOUR. ISLAMIC SOURCES ON FOREIGN FOOD RESTRICTIONS: RELATIVIZING OTHERNESS
- PART FIVE. COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES: ENGAGING OTHERNESS
- Works Cited
- pp. 283-306
- Index of Sources
- pp. 307-312
- General Index
- pp. 313-325
- Production Notes
- p. 326
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520950276
Related ISBN(s)
9780520253216
MARC Record
OCLC
743694008
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No