Rules about what may or may not be eaten, filed as belief because the entry records the rule and the tradition's own stated reason for it, rather than under practice, which would record the act of following it. Kashrut and halal are the best known examples, but the type spans traditions well beyond Judaism and Islam.
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What Defines This GroupingRules a tradition states about what may be eaten and how it must be prepared. They rest on unrelated logics and are not one rule: kashrut and halal are laws of permitted species and slaughter; Jain and much Hindu abstention follows from ahimsa, non-injury, and reaches foods those laws never touch; the Latter-day Saint Word of Wisdom rests on a nineteenth-century revelation. 2 Status
Standing as a Comparative CategoryA standard analytic category in the study of religion 3 Learn More
The dietary restrictions
This group holds dietary restrictions, the beliefs that govern permitted and forbidden food and drink, from the kosher and halal laws of Judaism and Islam to the vegetarianism of several Indian traditions. Food rules are a visible and daily marker of religious identity and obedience.
The browser will find the dietary restrictions the atlas gathers. The entries describe each rule and its rationale, noting the tradition that observes it.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
3. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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