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All Dietary Restrictions

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 Grouping

Rules 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 Category

A standard analytic category in the study of religion 3

1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree

2. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

John Bowker (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997View the Source

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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All Dietary Restrictions

Do not mix meat and dairy

Meat must be slaughtered halal

Meat must be slaughtered kosher (shechita)

Pork is forbidden (haram)

Pork is not kosher

Shellfish are forbidden

Strict vegetarianism, no root vegetables

Vegetarianism is preferred