'Good' food: Islamic food ethics beyond religious dietary laws
In this article, I aim to contribute to the remedy of the current under-theorization of discourse on food ethics and politics from the perspective of the Islamic food tradition by proposing a formulation of an Islamic conception of food justice that extends the religious discourse on food beyond tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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| In: |
Critical research on religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 250-265 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Food laws
/ Moral act
/ Food
/ Justice
/ Good living (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Political ethics
B Religious Identity B Food Ethics B Islamic food justice |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | In this article, I aim to contribute to the remedy of the current under-theorization of discourse on food ethics and politics from the perspective of the Islamic food tradition by proposing a formulation of an Islamic conception of food justice that extends the religious discourse on food beyond that of dietary laws. The conception of Islamic food justice that I propose makes explicit the connections between the religious, ethical, and political discourses on food. First, I argue that the similarity between the central question of the secular approach to food ethics (i.e. what the rational-ethical individual should eat) and that of the modern interpretation of the religious approach to food (i.e. what the pious individual should eat) is best understood as a consequence of the shared assumption of the modern concept of subjectivity. Second, I argue that problematizing the concept of subjectivity that underlies both the secular and the religious approaches to food ethics is key to challenging the boundaries of the current disciplinary-bound discourses as it would allow for a reformulation of the central question beyond that of individual identity and extend the religious discourse on food to the realm on politics. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303214567670 |