Chains of trust : halal certification in the United States
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shirazi, Faegheh, 1952- | |
| dc.creator | Hawthorne, Emily Claire | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-09T20:14:38Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:26:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:26:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2014-10-09T20:14:38Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The growing halal food sector in America has garnered attention recently in a number of ways regarding changing consumer demands, production yield, and certification standards. Muslim consumers choosing halal food products today combine more objective knowledge about halal food products - learned from jurists, imams, the Qur’an, ḥadīth, and family traditions - with more subjective knowledge about what they want from their food. The resultant mix of objective and subjective information about halal food production standards creates a unique milieu termed, in this thesis, the contemporary consumption context. The small variances between what different Muslim consumers want out of their halal food – particularly in terms of ethical and humane animal treatment – introduce tiny iterations to the timeless religious ritual that halal food consumption and ẓabīḥa, or ritual, slaughter entail. | en |
| dc.description.department | Middle Eastern Studies | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26418 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Religious ritual | en |
| dc.subject | Islamic studies | en |
| dc.subject | Modernization studies | en |
| dc.subject | Halal | en |
| dc.subject | Kosher | en |
| dc.subject | Food certification | en |
| dc.subject | Consumer behavior | en |
| dc.title | Chains of trust : halal certification in the United States | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |