A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics

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Paul Waldau, Kimberley Patton
Columbia University Press, 22 may 2009 - 720 páginas

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.

 

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Introduction
11
Imaging Medieval Christian Heresy
103
and Contemporary Speciesism
117
Dimensions of Animals in Islamic Tradition
149
Caught with ourselves in
230
Hinduism
275
Buddhism PART V
309
A Deep Appreciation
461
PART II
533
Judaism
548
CHRISTOPHER MCDONOUGH 413
556
Farming Without Culture
568
The Nature of MARY EVELYN TUCKER 645
605
KIM ROBERTS 605 The Dance of
651
the Problem of Religion List of Contributors
657
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Paul Waldau is the director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Boston and is the author of The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals (Oxford). He is also co-chair of the Animals and Religion Consultation at the American Academy of Religion and president of the Religion and Animals Institute.

Kimberley Patton is professor of the comparative and historical study of religion at Harvard Divinity School, where she teaches a course on animals in religion. She is the author of several books, including most recently, The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia).

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