Religion as Embodied Taste: Using Food to Rethink Religion

This article offers a model of conceptualising religion as taste. Using religion and food as a point of entry, it demonstrates how modelling religion as taste permits attention to such concepts as embodiedness, the place of the senses within religious experience, the relation of memory to experience...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:  
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zeller, Benjamin E. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
En cours de chargement...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publié: Equinox Publishing [2017]
Dans: Body and religion
Année: 2017, Volume: 1, Numéro: 1, Pages: 10-30
Sujets non-standardisés:B Cognitive Science
B Lived Religion
B Taste
B Embodiment
B Food
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Volltext (doi)
Description
Résumé:This article offers a model of conceptualising religion as taste. Using religion and food as a point of entry, it demonstrates how modelling religion as taste permits attention to such concepts as embodiedness, the place of the senses within religious experience, the relation of memory to experience, and the mediation of culture. I draw on the cognitive and biological science of taste, and argue that religion functions analogously to this sense, experienced through the brain, body, and mind. The article uses the intersection of religion and food, and religion and visual taste, to develop the theme of how culturally conditioned tastes emerge out of embodied experiences, with reference to memories, past experiences, and collective worldviews.
ISSN:2057-5831
Contient:Enthalten in: Body and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bar.32834