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A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
P Waldau
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Description for A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
Paperback. Editor(s): Waldau, Paul; Patton, Kimberley. Num Pages: 720 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: HRAM1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1272. Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. 720 pages, ill. Editor(s): Waldau, Paul; Patton, Kimberley. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRAM1. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 35. Weight: 1214.
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 humans' relationships with animals and a deeper understanding of the social and ecological web ... Read more
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 humans' relationships with animals and a deeper understanding of the social and ecological web ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136433
SKU
V9780231136433
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About P Waldau
Kimberley C. Patton (PhD, Religion, Harvard) is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, 2009), which and won the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Religious Studies in the Analytical-Descriptive category, and The Sea Can Wash ... Read more
Reviews for A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
This substantial contribution opens up a broad field and will clearly be inspiration to further work on animals and religion. It is very much welcome.
Ingvild SA|lid Gilhus Journal of the American Academy of Religion A Communion of Subjects delivers a wealth of resources for stirring the conscience and stoking the imagination.
Matthew Halteman Christian Century Unique, compassionate, ... Read more
Ingvild SA|lid Gilhus Journal of the American Academy of Religion A Communion of Subjects delivers a wealth of resources for stirring the conscience and stoking the imagination.
Matthew Halteman Christian Century Unique, compassionate, ... Read more