원불교 음식문화의 종교적 함의

Abstract

Generally, religions have some significant influence on the food cultures of each region in the worldwide global village. Considering the aspect of human culture, religions have played a social role to lead the then society to a more proper direction on actual issues such as regional conditions, public health and sanitation, and food rationing While some have adhered to old traditional food cultures, the much more part of recent food cultures have got out of old traditional customs. Free from various religious taboos and precepts, human beings have seek their own appetite and greed of food through the transition from feed and food to haute cuisine. The recent people-oriented food cultures are maintained at the cost of many lives. Nevertheless, some parts of the global village have struggled with starvation, while the other parts have wasted food in the surplus of food or are not used to food sharing for saving. To create the true food culture for all human beings, we have to understand the real meaning of old religious taboos and precepts against food appetite and greed for food saving and sharing. In this point, we should make an effort to find how to rid ourselves of excessive food appetite and greed and how to save and share food for all human beings and lives. Also, Wonbuddhist food culture is no exception for the effort. In this point, this paper is to suggest several ways for creating the food cultures, satisfying the religious original meanings for food cultures.