Item Detail
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29255
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3
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English
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Religion in a Recipe
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 2012
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38
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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139-143
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In recent decades, leading scholars in religious studies have shifted their focus from a study of the lives and words of religious leaders to the religious imaginations and practices of ordinary people.1++In my doctoral work, I am extending the study of this “lived religion” through the close reading of recipes. Reading recipes for insights about religion and culture builds on the approaches of lived religion, material culture, and even literary technique. Cookbooks produced in the name of religious communities exemplify ongoing conversations between the individual and the collective, and between leaders and laity. These texts reveal popular attitudes about religious priorities, telling where allegiances lie in the daily experience of decision-making and the compromises inherent to eating and preparing food. [From the text]