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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2023
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2022.2138137 |