How Food Teaches and Why It Matters for Religious Education

Food (systems, cultures, and practices of eating) is a significant site of cultural, political, and identity formation to which religious educators can pay attention, not only in a critical sense—to be “readers” of culture—but also as a potential path of creative engagement and re-formation—a way to...

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Main Author: Nelson, Vaughn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2023
In: Religious education
Year: 2023, Volume: 118, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-36
Further subjects:B religious foodways
B Identity Formation
B Food pedagogy
B public pedagogy
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Summary:Food (systems, cultures, and practices of eating) is a significant site of cultural, political, and identity formation to which religious educators can pay attention, not only in a critical sense—to be “readers” of culture—but also as a potential path of creative engagement and re-formation—a way to become “cultural producers.” Food studies scholarship that foregrounds the pedagogical nature of food and food’s participation in racial formation projects can help point toward a religious education grounded in formational, embodied, aesthetic, playful, and consciousness-raising approaches to food.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2022.2138137