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Religion And Wine - Cultural History Wine Drinking United States (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Religion And Wine - Cultural History Wine Drinking United States (Paperback, 1st ed)
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List price R461
Loot Price R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
You Save R39 (8%)
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Wine, more than any other food or beverage, is intimately
associated with religious experience and celebratory rituals.
Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in American cultural
history. From the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the Francis cans and
Jesuits who pioneered California's Mission Trail, many American
religious groups have required wine to perform their sacraments and
enliven their evening meals. This book tells the story of how
viniculture in America was started and sustained by a broad
spectrum of religious denominations. In the process, it offers new
insights into the special relationship between wine production and
consump tion and the spiritual dimension of human experience.
Robert Fuller's historical narrative encompasses a fascinating
array of groups and individuals, and the author makes some
provocative connections between the love of wine and the
particularities of religious experience. For example, he speculates
on the ways in which Thomas Jefferson's celebrated knowledge of
wine related to his cultural sophistication and free-thinking
outlook on matters of religion and spirituality. Elsewhere he
describes how a number of nineteenth -century communal
groups-including the Rappites, the Amana colonies, the Mormons, and
the spiritualist colony called the Brotherhood of the New Life
helped to spread the religious use of wine across a vast new
nation. Fuller describes and analyzes the role of wine drinking in
promoting community solidarity and facilitating a variety of
religious experiences, ranging from the warm glow of ri tualized
camaraderie to the ecstasy of immediate contact with otherwise
hidden spiritual realms. He also devotes a chapter to the rise of
temperance and prohibi tionist sentiments among fundamentalist
Christians and their subsequent attack on wine drinking. The book's
concluding chapter features an insightful analysis of the ritual
dimensions of contemporary wine drinking and wine culture.
According to Fuller, the aesthetic experiences and communal
affirmation that some religious groups have historically associated
with the enjoyment of wine have passed into the prac tice of
popular-or "unchurched"-religion in the United States.
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