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• Holy anorexia -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.
  
  
• Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. Vintage, 2000.
  
  
• Bynum Walker, Caroline. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1988.
  
  
• Christian Fasting: A Theological Approach -- Bible.org
  
  
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.
  
  
• Jeûne genevois [Switzerland, public holiday, fasting] -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001].
  
  
• Simoons, Frederick J. Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present, 2nd Ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
  
  
• Therapeutic Fasting - Worldwide Links
  
  
• World Religions
  
  
  • Buddhist
  • Christianity
    • Catholic
      • Eucharist
      • Proscriptions
        • fasting
      • Black Fast
    • Poustinia
  • Hindu
  • Islam
    • Ramadan
    • Proscriptions
      • halal
      • Haraam
      • Islamic dietary laws
    • Food According to Quran and Sunnah -- Muttaqun OnLine
  • Jain
    • Santhara (voluntary death by fasting)
  • Jewish
    • Seder
    • Proscriptions
    • Break fast
      
      
  • American Indian
    • Vision quest
  • ritual anthropophagy see Anthropophagy