Religion and Wine: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States [Hardcover]

Robert C. Fuller (Author)

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Fuller (religion, Bradley Coll.) has written that rare combination of scholarly treatise and entertaining social history. He traces the relationship between wine and religion from the earliest Egyptian religious uses of wine to contemporary American religious attitudes toward wine. He examines not only the ways in which religious prohibitions of wine arose but also the production of wine by various religious organizations. An intoxicating book; highly recommended.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 140 pages
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870499106
• ISBN-13: 978-0870499104
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,341,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is Wine a culture or an adjunct to religion?, August 12, 1999

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This review is from: Religion And Wine: Cultural History Wine Drinking United States (Paperback)

As a long term alcoholic, this reader has wrestled with whether he should take wine at his service. This small volumn provides the background for an intelligent individual answer to the question. It also gives insight to the question of cultural purity in the midst of others, and the rituals designed to preclude contamination by non-believers. It's subtitle, "A Cutural History of Wine Drinking in the United States." is its best recommendation. If one already has the answer, then this open non-polemical history is not for them. I particularly related to its description of wine tasting as a religous-secular ceremony. The recent decision to prohibit sales of wine via the Internet makes sense after "tasting" this easy read volume. A strong recommendation for religous anthropologists, recovering alcoholics, and the just plain curious. The only omission that I noted was no discussion of the use of non-preserved grape juice "mus" for ministers, rabbis, and priests who are alcoholics.