Food, Festival and Religion - Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Food, Festival and Religion

Materiality and Place in Italy
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-02086-3 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
Food, Festival and Religion explores how communities in northern Italy find a restorative sense of place through foodways, costuming and other forms of materiality. Festivals examined by the author vary geographically from the northern rural corners of Italy to the fashionable heart of urban Milan. The origins of these lived religious events range from Christian to vernacular Italian witchcraft and contemporary Paganism, which is rapidly growing in Italy.

Francesca Ciancimino Howell demonstrates that during ritualized occasions the sacred is located within the mundane. She argues that communal feasting, pilgrimage, rituals and costumed events can represent forms of lived religious materiality. Building on the work of scholars including Foucault, Grimes and Ingold, Howell offers a theoretical “Scale of Engagement” which further tests the interfaces between and among the materialities of place, food, ritual and festivals and provides a widely-applicable model for analyzing grassroots events and community initiatives.

Through extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork data, this book demonstrates that popular Italian festivals can be ritualized, liminal spaces, contributing greatly to the fields of religious, performance and ritual studies.

Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USA

List of Images
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Materiality, things and power
2. The Phenomenon of the Community Festival
3. Community, tradition and festivals in Lombardy
4. Community, tradition, food and festival in Piedmont
5. Feasting and living Paganism in Northern Italy
6. Theoretical foundations and diverse perspectives
7. Analyses and Conclusions
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 494 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-350-02086-9 / 1350020869
ISBN-13 978-1-350-02086-3 / 9781350020863
Zustand Neuware
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