Religion and diet in a multi-religious city: a comprehensive study regarding interreligious relations in Tbilisi in everyday life and on feast days

Authors

• Ulrica Söderlind Stockholm University, Department of ecnomic-history

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67452

Keywords:

Food -- Religious aspects -- Comparative studies, Eating and meals, Diet, Cooking, Food habits, Nutrition, Fasts and feasts, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Georgia -- History

Abstract

This article deals with the importance of foodways among the believers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, both on feast days and in daily life. It takes the form of an interdisciplinary survey in which interviews and written sources are used as well as personal observations from people living within the city.