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Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life

This book stages a complex argument that aims to change the ways in which religion is understood, researched and taught. It required extensive fieldwork research in multiple locations (including Canada, Israel, Nigeria and Polynesia) and analysis of a considerable body of scholarship about issues as diverse as approaches to vernacular and lived religion, competing notions of what counts as religion, and the implications of recent studies of animal consciousness and ritualism. It analyses performative and material culture issues as well as textual and cognitive ones. It also required considerable time commitments to synthesise and present this material and argument accessibly.