198: Holy Food (w/Christina Ward)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Does God have a recipe? That’s the first line of the blurb of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat: An American History by independent food historian, Christina Ward. Ward’s survey of American religious groups and cults through the foods they grow, source, and prepare leads into an in-depth discussion about cults and high-demand groups that use food, and food restrictions, as a method for control. That’s not all she tells Derek—they also discuss the ritual of sharing a meal. Matthew and Julian offer their own reflections on food in high-demand settings before Christina joins to discuss her excellent book. Show Notes Holy Food Christina Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Food becomes a real tangible thing. We need it.
0:05.0	We cannot give it up.
0:07.0	As much as some spiritual practitioners may assume that you can give it up and just live on air, we can't. We need the food. And so it
0:15.8	becomes a really easy control mechanism to control people who are in of the group, out of the
0:21.5	group, people are misbehaving in the group, people are not following
0:24.4	directions. So it becomes very symbolic and as well as a useful tool.
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