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Fit For Food: 'Eating Jewishly' and the 'Islamic Paradigm' as Emergent Religious Foodways in Toronto

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TL49769

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Title Proper

Fit For Food: 'Eating Jewishly' and the 'Islamic Paradigm' as Emergent Religious Foodways in Toronto

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[Thesis]

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Aldea Mulhern

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Klassen, Pamela

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Toronto (Canada)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

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312

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Committee members: Mittermaier, Amira; Shternshis, Anna

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-53585-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religion

Body granting the degree

University of Toronto (Canada)

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2017

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This project is about Jews and Muslims who participate in the food movement in Toronto, about how and why they do, and about what challenges and opportunities this presents to contemporary understandings of kashrut and halal as religious dietary laws. In early twenty-first century Canada, food is a site where consumer ethics and religious diversity intersect. The two groups I focus on are Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs, a charitable organization running Jewish environmental practices at multiple satellite sites, and Noor Islamic Cultural Centre, a mosque where community members gather regularly for religious ritual and political and cultural events. Both are intentionally non-sectarian religious communities that invite pan-Jewish or pan-Muslim participation, have norms viewed as progressive by the wider religious community, and run considerable food-related programming that actively connects religion with alternative foodways. Both advocate for more "conscious" food practices, including local, organic, sustainable, humane, and social-justice-oriented food choices. They develop religious foodways that are, on the one hand, fundamentally connected to traditional religious food law, and on the other hand, significant departures from typical understandings of kashrut and halal. The foodways that emerge in this milieu are "eating Jewishly", in relation to kashrut, and an "Islamic paradigm" for eating, in relation to halal.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Judaic studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anthropology of religion;Food and identity;Foodways;Islam;Judaism;Religion and environment

Kaivan, Nahal Crystal

Klassen, Pamela

Subdivision

Religion

University of Toronto (Canada)

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2010573653; 10635497

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276903

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