The Question of the Animal and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Question of the Animal and Religion write by Aaron S. Gross. This book was released on 2014-12-02. The Question of the Animal and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from other animals, but Gross rejects this paradigm, instead matching religion more closely with the life sciences to better theorize human nature. Gross begins with a detailed account of the scandals at Agriprocessors and their significance for the American and international Jewish community. He argues that without a proper theorization of "animals and religion," we cannot fully understand religiously and ethically motivated diets and how and why the events at Agriprocessors took place. Subsequent chapters recognize the significance of animals to the study of religion in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Jacques Derrida and the value of indigenous peoples' understanding of animals to the study of religion in our daily lives. Gross concludes by extending the Agribusiness scandal to the activities at slaughterhouses of all kinds, calling attention to the religiosity informing the regulation of "secular" slaughterhouses and its implications for our relationship with and self-imagination through animals.
A Communion of Subjects
A Communion of Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Communion of Subjects write by Paul Waldau. This book was released on 2009-05-22. A Communion of Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Communion of Subjects is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of the conceptualization of animals in world religions. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including Thomas Berry (cultural history), Wendy Doniger (study of myth), Elizabeth Lawrence (veterinary medicine, ritual studies), Marc Bekoff (cognitive ethology), Marc Hauser (behavioral science), Steven Wise (animals and law), Peter Singer (animals and ethics), and Jane Goodall (primatology) consider how major religious traditions have incorporated animals into their belief systems, myths, rituals, and art. Their findings offer profound insights into the relationship between human beings and animals, and a deeper understanding of the social and ecological web in which we all live.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics write by Andrew Linzey. This book was released on 2018-09-29. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is a key reference source in this area, looking specifically at the role religion plays in the formation of ethics around these concerns. Featuring thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into two parts. The first gives an overview of fifteen of the major world religions’ attitudes towards animal ethics and protection. The second features five sections addressing the following topics: Human Interaction with Animals Killing and Exploitation Religious and Secular Law Evil and Theodicy Souls and Afterlife This handbook demonstrates that religious traditions, despite often being anthropocentric, do have much to offer to those seeking a framework for a more enlightened relationship between humans and non-human animals. As such, The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and animal ethics as well as those studying the philosophy of religion and ethics more generally.
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature Red in Tooth and Claw write by Michael Murray. This book was released on 2008-06-19. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.
Animals on the Agenda
Animals on the Agenda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animals on the Agenda write by Andrew Linzey. This book was released on 1998. Animals on the Agenda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This encyclopaedic volume is the most comprehensive collection of original studies on animals and theology every published. With contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, it tackles many apparently simple issues which raise fundamental questions about theology and how it is done.
