Essays about: "sacred food"
Found 5 essays containing the words sacred food.
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1. Food Stories: Bread, Religion, and Identity : An IPA study in the multi-cultural area of Brasov, Transylvania
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : The paper follows and compares the narratives around sacred bread in four religious communities within the multicultural Transylvanian area of Brasov: Orthodox Christianity, Lutheran Christianity, Romano-Catholic, and Judaic. Information regarding the practice of bread making during key religious celebrations was gathered via six semi-structured interviews and analysed by interpretative phenomenology analysis (IPA), thus providing a summary of what unites and what distinguishes the four religious communities and also indicating a few directions for the common ground in building an inclusive multi-narrative perspective. READ MORE
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2. Sacred Resistance : Exploring the Roles of Religious Organizations in the Refugee Movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg” 2013-2014
University essay from Södertörns högskola/ReligionsvetenskapAbstract : This study explores the roles of religious organizations in the refugee movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg”, in Hamburg, Germany during 2013 and 2014. “Lampedusa in Hamburg” consisted of approximately 300 refugees who had come from Libya, and decided to fight for their right to stay in Germany. READ MORE
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3. Gastronomy as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land
University essay fromAbstract : This thesis is a study within the international master program “Religion in Peace and Conflict” at the department of theology at Uppsala University. The study should be seen as a microstudy over the role gastronomy plays as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land. READ MORE
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4. Perceptions of Sacred Hamburgers : Alternation Processes Regarding Food Restrictions in the Apostolic Decree and the Clashes of Symbolic Universes
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : The Apostle meeting in Jerusalem is an important event that leads to the Apostle Decree, condensing all rules into four main ones, in order to include the Gentiles. Regarding food restrictions in the Decree, what could have started a Gentile alternation of their old symbolic universe, in order to internalize a new plausibility structure? The focus seems to have been to describe in what way the Gentiles reacted on different sets of rules, thus disregarding the Jewish faction of Jesus-believers that created them. READ MORE
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5. "How long does it take a ritual to build up, to take hold and become standard practice?" : bark peeling in Scandinavia and North America
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and ManagementAbstract : Independently, the Sami people in northern Scandinavia and native people in the north temperate and boreal zone of North America have utilized the cambium layer of bark from both coniferous and deciduous trees as food, medicine, as well as material for other requirements; clothes, baskets and various kinds of wrapping. The sharp seasonal environments created food shortages in certain periods and inner bark thus became an important food component. READ MORE
