A Seventh-day Adventist farm community in Tanzania and vegetarianism as a social practice

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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI:10.1108/joe-05-2022-0009

Tamas Lestar

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PurposeThis paper is the outcome of an empirical research on a Seventh-day Adventist farm in Tanzania. The author investigated the role of Christian spirituality in switching to and maintaining vegetarian practices. Dietary change is proposed in the sustainability literature as a crucial trajectory to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the links between spirituality and climate-friendly dining in a localised Christian context and discuss their significance further for wider society.Design/methodology/approachSocial practice theory (SPT) provided the tools to explore, empirically, the dynamic development of dietary practice within the farm community and its relation to the outside world; according to SPT, following the main building blocks of practices, namely materials, competences and meanings (cognitive or emotional), helps to understand the evolution of practices in society.FindingsFindings show that the spiritual element of the community's dietary practice is key in maintaining commitment to vegetarianism, despite the rationale focussing exclusively on human health.Social implicationsExpanding the rationale to animal compassion and environmental concerns could enhance the stabilisation of the practice within and beyond the community's realms.Originality/valueThe research showcases, probably for the first time, how a localised vegetarian practice may be linked to broader societal developments and policymaking through the application of SPT.

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坦桑尼亚基督复临安息日会农场社区和素食主义社会实践

目的本文是对坦桑尼亚基督复临安息日会农场进行实证研究的结果。作者调查了基督教精神在转变和保持素食实践中的作用。可持续性文献中提出，饮食变化是减轻气候变化影响的关键轨迹。本文的目的是在本地化的基督教背景下探索精神和气候友好型餐饮之间的联系，并进一步讨论它们对更广泛的社会的意义。设计/方法论/方法社会实践理论（SPT）提供了从经验上探索农场社区内饮食实践的动态发展及其与外部世界的关系的工具；SPT认为，遵循实践的主要组成部分，即材料、能力和意义（认知或情感），有助于理解社会实践的演变。研究结果表明，尽管基本原理只关注人类健康，但社区饮食实践的精神元素是保持素食主义承诺的关键。社会含义将基本原理扩展到动物同情和环境问题，可以增强社区内外实践的稳定性。独创性/价值这项研究可能是第一次展示了通过SPT的应用，本地化的素食实践如何与更广泛的社会发展和政策制定联系在一起。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Organizational Ethnography (JOE) has been launched to provide an opportunity for scholars, from all social and management science disciplines, to publish over two issues: -high-quality articles from original ethnographic research that contribute to the current and future development of qualitative intellectual knowledge and understanding of the nature of public and private sector work, organization and management -review articles examining the history and development of the contribution of ethnography to qualitative research in social, organization and management studies -articles examining the intellectual, pedagogical and practical use-value of ethnography in organization and management research, management education and management practice, or which extend, critique or challenge past and current theoretical and empirical knowledge claims within one or more of these areas of interest -articles on ethnographically informed research relating to the concepts of organization and organizing in any other wider social and cultural contexts.