8. Lots of interesting alternative explanations in my TL, which I've been re-tweeting.
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9. But aside from all these interestingexplanations, isn't there also something in nature of religion itself connected with public dining.
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10. It's a modern, Protestant-inflected notion that religion is an internal, private thing. But most religions are social, communal, shared
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11. Primordial religious experiences are the shared meal (which is why dietary restrictions so key to many religions in marking boundaries)
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12. Shabbat, Mass, Iftar, Langar, etc. -- all different of course but all examples of how shared consumption is integral to religion.
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13. In any case, talking about God over coffee is an interesting cross-denominational (and cross faith) ad hoc ritual.
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14. I'm tempted to revise Marx & say religion isn't the opium of the masses but the coffee of the masses.
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15. Beyond the religious stuff, coffee houses interesting as rare modern public space of relaxed sociability. Need more such spaces!
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@HeerJeet One of modern society's few ubiquitous "third places." Quite a bit of scholarship on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place …1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes -
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@theturner@HeerJeet Herbert Gold had a good book on coffee houses and bohemia about 20 years back. http://www.amazon.com/Bohemia-Where-Angst-Strong-Coffee/dp/0975366246 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@thecob82 @theturner I've read that -- it's a good book.
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