Feasting with Buddhist Women: Food Literacy in Religious Belonging
Abstract This ethnographic study shows that women’s knowledge and practices involving food in Japanese Buddhist contexts circulate as gendered currency. It emphasizes how what we term “food literacy” cultivates aesthetic and affective senses of belonging among Buddhist practitioners. We argue that t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 567-592 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Buddhism
/ Food
/ Ritual
/ Religious community
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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gendered currency
B food literacy B Buddhist women B religious belonging B Japanese Buddhism B Affect |
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