Slavkova, Magdalena (2019) Evangelical Gypsy Foodways. In: Between the worlds: People, space and rituals. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, pp. 336-359. ISBN 2683-0213
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This paper focuses on food in relation to the experience of religious transformation among Evangelical Gypsies in Bulgaria. Understanding the discourse on meal consumption in the everyday life of converts is the main aim here, but the Protestant ‘encounters’ with local tradition, the politics of diet introduced by the Church and the significance of conversion for the Evangelical body will also be examined. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which foodways become a medium of engaging with the believing and non-believing worlds and how may be indicative of personal self-discipline. In the context of how Protestants understand the world around them, cuisine provides new avenues of re-configuring relationships with the self and with others. I conducted fieldwork among converted Gypsies from various Protestant denominations who had previously professed the Orthodox Christian or Islamic faiths. In analysing the field material through the ethnological approach, food along with abstaining from alcohol and non-smoking habits provided me with a ‘valuable lens’ through which I could rethink the parameters of Evangelical culture. Strictly defining what Gypsy foodways might be is a challenging task which lays in the heterogeneity of this population and the diversity of the congregations that have influence among believers.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Europe, Bulgaria, Roma, Gypsies, Evangelicalism, Protestantism, faith, foodways, body |
| Subjects: | G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Protestants B Mission Theology/Theory > Contextualization/Inculturation B Mission Theology/Theory > Identity Issues G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Evangelicals |
| Divisions: | Bulgaria |
| Depositing User: | Jelena Bakic |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2020 18:50 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 12:12 |
| URI: | https://rocprints.rockcentre.org/id/eprint/363 |
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