Civiltà in tavola. La cultura del cibo tra tradizioni, storia e diritto

The relationship between humans and food represents one of the main topics of reflection and debate that every society needs to face throughout its history, to build defend and sometimes even to impose its culture. Indeed, there is no human civilization that has not developed culinary tastes, nutritional rules, and food taboos that have been considered and experienced as specific and peculiar. Sometimes these gastronomic practices are linked to religious prescriptions, sometimes they are related to the material availability of food resources, and sometimes they are dictated by fashions, based on the fascination with unusual foods or innovative ingredients that can challenge tradition.

In this typically human cultural construction of rules to be respected, interpreted or broken in order to create an identity relationship with food, all civilizations have therefore elaborated their own specific dimensions at the table, which arise from the intersection of legal, religious, ethical, health, economic, political and sensory experiences. This Book Series aims to investigate all these different facets, in an attempt to enlighten new and different aspects of the complex dynamic that characterizes the unbreakable bond between human beings and food, believing that each contribution, while different and specialized, can help add new tiles to a mosaic which remains in constant evolution.

Editors in chief
Andrea Errera, Università di Parma
Federica Boldrini, Università di Parma
Scientific Board
Antonella Campanini, Università di Bologna
Marcílio Toscano Franca Filho, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Jean-Claude Hocquet, Université de Lille

Sabrina Lanni, Università di Milano
Geo Magri, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Giovanni Minnucci, Università di Siena
Bernd van der Muelen, European Institute for Food Law
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Andrea Errera

Cibo e/è religione

Diritto, spiritualità e alimentazione tra Oriente e Occidente

Tutte le religioni hanno affrontato nel corso della loro storia la questione dell’assunzione del cibo, inteso come strumento per agevolare il cammino mistico. Questo volume affronta la complessa questione passando in rassegna le regole in tema di cibo contenute nelle diverse esperienze spirituali del passato e del presente.

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