Food as Outreach: Bridging Social Boundaries with Sacred Feasts

Food is a medium for extending charity and constituting community, in the face of social and cultural divisions, based on perceptions of purity. The work of charitable groups The Red Frogs, The Homeless Run, and Reverend Bill Crews' Loaves and Fishes in contemporary Australia creates links betw...

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Main Author: Rigney, Cressida (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2016]
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 300-316
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marginal group / Exclusion / Food / Interpersonal communication / Religious festival
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Loaves and Fishes
B SOCIAL boundaries
B Food charity
B Purity
B charitable giving
B FASTS & feasts
B Homeless Run
B Faith
B Red Frogs
B Social Constructionism
B Commensality
Online Access: Volltext (doi)