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RLTH 381- Study Questions
As much as possible, you should attempt to select and discuss different examples in your responses to these questions. (For example, you could in theory discuss Indigenous foodways for all of these questions.)
1. What is a "foodway," and how are foodways tied to cultural and religious identities? Briefly discuss two relevant examples from this course, and describe how each expresses itself as a "foodway."
2. Discuss two examples of food cultures related to resistance and/or resilience. What seems special about these kinds of food cultures-in other words, how is eating tied differently to questions of identity, belonging, meaning, and storytelling in these contexts? How is the concept of "food sovereignty" connected to this question?
3. Discuss two issues related to food in/justice, one involving humans the other involving animals. Why are these issues of justice in the first place (i.e., on what grounds), and what, in your view, are the best responses to them? How might religion be relevant here?
4. What are "surface commands" and "deeper commands," and how do they function in religions? Think about and discuss two examples from the course, or other examples you are aware of (i.e. not the ones that are discussed in the reading-in other words, apply the concept to other examples).
5. In your experience with this course, what are two of the most important ways in which the study of religion can help to "interpret" food, and vice versa? In other words, what can we see/understand in studying them together that we might not otherwise see/understand by studying them in isolation?