Do you eat Insects? – Forbidden Animals In Judaism and Hinduism
Perspectives on Religious Food Regulations – Dialogical Lecture Series (video recording available, in German)
Many animals are forbidden to eat in Judaism: pigs, insects, rabbits, snails, shellfish, other fish without fins and scales, and dogs. Hindu religions also include prohibitions on meat consumption. Some Hindus refrain from consuming meat altogether, while others only avoid beef.
What is the theological reasoning for these prohibitions? And what ethical notions have they emerged from? Do ethnology or anthropology have models for explaining Jewish and Hindu rules surrounding meat eating?
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording from 30 September 2021, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2021
Renate Syed
Renate Syed is a scholar of Indian studies and Sanskrit. She teaches Indian philosophy, cultural history and art at the Institute for Indology and Tibetan Studies at the University of Munich. Her areas of expertise include Sanskrit, the modern Indian languages of Hindi and Urdu, and Indian cultural history and philosophy. She has many publications on the “third gender” and transgender identity in India, dietary laws in Hinduism, and the construction of masculinity in Indian culture.
Asher J. Mattern
Asher J. Mattern is a research associate at the Institute of Ecumenical and Interfaith Research at the University of Tübingen, where he regularly offers comparative courses together with Muslim colleagues. In his research and publications, he brings philosophical traditions into dialogue with rabbinical thought.
The dialogical lecture will be chaired by Shlomit Tripp.
Dr. Renate Syed (left) und Dr. Asher J. Mattern (right); Jewish Museum Berlin
Dialogical Lecture Series: Kosher to Go – Perspectives on Religious Food Regulations (5)
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Kosher to Go – Perspectives on Religious Food Regulations
In the dialogical lecture series, Jewish dietary laws are considered in relation to the dietary rules of other world religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) and interpreted using perspectives from anthropology, ethnology, and the sociology of food. In this way, the origins and functions of dietary rules are examined up to the present day.
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The Kitchen as a Substitute Sanctuary? Modern Debates Around Eating
With Kathrin Burger (science journalist and author) and Jonathan Schorsch (University of Potsdam)
Video Recording
25 Nov 2021 -
Do you eat Insects? – Forbidden Animals In Judaism and Hinduism
With Dr. Syed (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich) and Dr. Mattern (University of Tübingen), in German
Video Recording
30 Sep 2021 -
Between Sanction and Sanctification – Alcohol in Judaism and Christianity
With Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and David Grumett (University of Edinburgh), in German
Video Recording
22 Jun 2021 -
Kosher and Halal – Animal Slaughter in Judaism and Islam
With Aaron S. Gross (University of San Diego) and Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt University of Berlin), in German
Video Recording
19 May 2021 -
Holy Food and Drink – Why Do Dietary Rules Exist?
With Prof. Kikuko Kashiwagi-Wetzel (Kansai University von Osaka) and Prof. David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), in English and German
Video Recording
22 Apr 2021
