Fasting in World History

Prof. Ken Albala (History Department, University of the Pacific) explores the topic of fasting at the 2014 ORIAS summer teachers’ institute on Foodways in World History. The study of fasting raises interesting questions, foremost among them: Why do people do it? What motivates someone to refuse to perform a biological necessity? Fasting thus draws food into an intriguing nexus with religion, as religious strictures and individual religiosity have been at the base of most fasting behavior, historically; and even now there is a spiritual basis adduced for much fasting.

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