Shared Devotion, Shared Food

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Shared Devotion, Shared Food is written by Jon Keune and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197574858 (ISBN 10) and 9780197574850 (ISBN 13).

Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Jon Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.