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SUMMARY:Hungry for the Word! Starvation as Sacrifice Among Scottish Christ
 ian Fishermen - Joe Webster (Social Anthropology)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:In Gamrie\, a small fishing in northeast Aberdeenshire – hom
 e to 700 people and six churches – Christianity was often described as b
 oth a life of worship and a life of sacrifice. But what does a life of sac
 rifice look like and how is it related to worship? ‘Unsaved’ persons w
 ere said to be entirely guided by the sinful ‘lusts’ of the flesh\, wh
 ereas Christians (the saved) were guided by the righteous yearnings of the
  ‘spirit’. The activity of sermonising reflected this divide. Sermons 
 that catered to the saved were referred to as ‘Bible teaching’ whereas
  sermons directed towards the unsaved were referred to as ‘gospel preach
 ing’. This differentiation between preaching to the unsaved and teaching
  the saved was made sense of with reference to the consumption of differen
 t foods. Preaching was likened to ‘milk’ – the food of unweaned babi
 es –whereas the saved\, being more mature\, ‘hungered for’ the ‘me
 at’ of Bible teaching. In discussing these four pairs of concepts – 
 ‘unsaved’ and ‘saved’\; ‘flesh’ and ‘spirit’\; ‘preachin
 g’ and ‘teaching’\, ‘meat’ and ‘milk’ – I draw on the work
  of Robertson-Smith and (1889) [1972] and Hubert and Mauss (1898) [1968] t
 o argue that sermonising can be understood as a type of sacrificial meal. 
 Intriguingly\, such a feast also represents a kind of starvation – not o
 ne that involves eating meat through the mouth\, but rather one that invol
 ves eating words through the ear. 
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