Paul (Hrsg.) Waldau

A Communion of Subjects

Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics

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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 relationsh… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Patton, Kimberley Christine (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-231-13643-3
EAN: 9780231136433
Produktnummer: 4366264
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 720 S.
Masse: H25.3 cm x B17.5 cm x D3.5 cm 1'272 g
Abbildungen: 14 illus.
Gewicht: 1272
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

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).