EAT AND PRAY: THE ROLE OF FOOD PRACTICES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-8305.2018i2p111-122Keywords:
alimentação e religião, estética da religião, religião, sentidos, paladar nas religiões.Abstract
Among many possible approaches in studying religion, one can find the aesthetics of religion, a field that searches comprehension through the senses. This paper questions why not use the senses rather than textual sources as evidences for the religious studies, though the main focus lies in the study of food practices and taste issues as tools for religious studies, since every religion has a say on food practices or uses food to specific goals. A hierarchy of senses leaves taste behind and added to that a “protestant” approach to studying religion clouds many possibilities of using senses, specially taste and smell, as evidence sources of religious experience, although “all” religions have a say on food. A brief state of art, associated to few examples about the use of food in religions, as well as, mentioning scholars that are using the study of food practices to comprehend religious experience compose the argumentation of this paper.
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