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Understanding how food fads and diets can develop a fervent following that rise to the level of a cult is a new area of study and often overlooked. Here, Kima Cargill and other experts shed fresh light on the subject, revealing how and why such cults may develop among certain communities.
List of contents
Introduction by Kima Cargill
1. The Psychology of Food Cults by Kima Cargill
2. The Allure Of Food Cults: Balancing Pseudoscience And Healthy Skepticism by Leighann R. Chaffee and Corey L. Cook
3. Food Practices In Early Christianity by Paul A. Brazinski
4. Juicing: Language, Ritual, And Placebo Sociality In A Community Of Extreme Eaters by Samuel Veissière and Liona Gibbs-Bravo5. Contemporary Superfood Cults: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism and Gender by Tina Sikka
6. Gluttons Galore - A Rising Faction in Food Discourses and Dining Experiences by Carlnita Greene7. Caving In: The Appeal of the Paleo Diet in the Wake of 9/11 by Lenore Bell
8. "Of Bananas And Cavemen": Unlikely Similarities Between Two Online Food Communities by Amanda Maxfield and Andrea Rissing
9. Eschew Your Food: Foodies, Healthism And The Elective Restrictive Diet By Michele Scott
10. Breaking Bread: The Clashing Cults of Sourdough and Gluten-Free By L. Sasha Gora
11. The Gluten-Free Cult: A World Without Wheat by Jennifer Martin
12. Erasure of Indigenous Food Memories and (Re-)Imaginations by Preety Gadhoke and Barrett P. Brenton
13. "Herb Is For The Healing Of The Nation!" -Marijuana As A Consumable Vegetable Among Ghetto Muslim Youth Of Maamobi In Accra, Ghana by De-Valera Botchway and Charles Prempeh
14. What Makes A Good Mother? Mother's Conceptions Of Good Food by Liora Gvion & Irit Sharir
About the author
Kima Cargill is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her research has been published in
The Psychoanalytic Review,
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, and
Food, Culture, and Society journals, and she has contributed to the
Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies and
Food for Thought. She has taught in Cuba, Mexico, Asia, and Africa. She teaches clinical psychology at the University of Washington, including a class on the Psychology of Food and Culture.
Summary
Understanding how food fads and diets can develop a fervent following that rise to the level of a cult is a new area of study and often overlooked. Here, Kima Cargill and other experts shed fresh light on the subject, revealing how and why such cults may develop among certain communities.
