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Whitebread Protestants
Daniel Sack
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Description for Whitebread Protestants
Paperback. For countless American Protestants, food and church are inseparable. From dry cookies and punch at coffee hour to potlucks and spaghetti dinners, this title looks at the role food plays in the daily life of white mainline Protestant congregations. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99; JFSR; JHBT; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
At the beginning of Whitebread Protestants, Daniel Sack writes "When I was young, church meant food. Decades later, it's hard to point to particular events, but there are lots of tastes, smells, and memories such as the taste of dry cookies and punch from coffee hour - or that strange orange drink from vacation Bible school." And so he begins this fascinating look at the role food has played in the daily life of the white Protestant community in the United States. He looks at coffee hours, potluck dinners, ladies' afternoon teas, soup kitchens, communion elements, and a variety of ... Read more
At the beginning of Whitebread Protestants, Daniel Sack writes "When I was young, church meant food. Decades later, it's hard to point to particular events, but there are lots of tastes, smells, and memories such as the taste of dry cookies and punch from coffee hour - or that strange orange drink from vacation Bible school." And so he begins this fascinating look at the role food has played in the daily life of the white Protestant community in the United States. He looks at coffee hours, potluck dinners, ladies' afternoon teas, soup kitchens, communion elements, and a variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294427
SKU
V9780312294427
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Daniel Sack
DANIEL SACK is the Associate Director of the Material History of American Religion Project.
Reviews for Whitebread Protestants
"Mixing serious inquiry with a healthy dollop of humor...[Sack] has rearranged a culture most often viewed as mainstream and boring and effectively served it up as a complex and even exotic morsel." - New York Times Book Review "...offers a funny and insightful pilgrimage into a diverse world of potlucks, communion services and coffee hours." - Minneapolis ... Read more