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Diet as a Postmodern Orientation of Religion, panel “Religious Foundations”, Religion in Society Conference

Solenn Thircuir

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As Alan Levinovitz argued, food can be an entry point into the study of religion. How then does religiosity manifest itself in the raw food diet? This food practice is based on the idea of finding salvation, but for this to happen, one must find its nature. The raw food leaders promise a revolutionary diet that could cure disease and the return to Adam and Eve’s natural paradise. By condemning a cultural symbol that is cooking, they claim to have the key to escape the degenerative modernity. They seduce and convert a cult of followers in Western countries. The dichotomies on which the norms of this diet are based refer to the notions of pure and impure, of good and bad. They divide up the world according to moralistic binaries. This article aims to analyze the raw food diet values and how a myth is constructed by updating of religious foundations, where love for nature and believing in the power of certain foods can be considered as a religion.
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hal-04104923 , version 1 (24-05-2023)

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Solenn Thircuir. Diet as a Postmodern Orientation of Religion, panel “Religious Foundations”, Religion in Society Conference. 8th International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society Religion, Spirituality, and Sociopolitical Engagement, University of California, Berkeley, Apr 2018, Berkeley (California), United States. ⟨hal-04104923⟩
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