You are what you don’t eat – Fasting, Ethics, and Ethnography, in Serbia and Beyond
You are what you don’t eat – Fasting, Ethics, and Ethnography, in Sebia and Beyond

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: This article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on the importance of rules, spiritual growth, hypocrisy, and sincerity. Thinking anthropologically, we see that people with range of viewpoints on the Church are in fact united in making ethical evaluations. More broadly, the article speculates that thinking about the ethical affordances of food might be one way to develop the ethnography of religion after Yugoslav socialism more generally.

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