You are what you don’t eat - fasting, ethics, and ethnography, in Serbia and beyond
This article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2024/0350-76532455263L.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so
through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food
and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different
ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on the
importance of rules, spiritual growth, hypocrisy, and sincerity. Thinking
anthropologically, we see that people with range of viewpoints on the Church
are in fact united in making ethical evaluations. More broadly, the article
speculates that thinking about the ethical affordances of food might be one
way to develop the ethnography of religion after Yugoslav socialism more
generally. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 2406-0801 |