Sacred Rituals and Humane Death - Religion in the Ethics and Politics of Modern Meat

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death is a critical analysis of the religious and ethical narratives around modern practices of meat "production" and killing. The volume questions the focus on the humaneness of modern methods of animal slaughter and argues for reconsidering ancient religious practices of animal slaughter and sacrifice.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Humane Death: the Making of Modern Meat
Chapter 2 Halal Meat: from Permissible Food to Ritual Slaughter
Chapter 3 Ethical Vegetarianism: Civilizing Religion
Chapter 4 Un-Civilizing Meat: Modern Human-Animal Relationship
Chapter 5 The Act of Witnessing: Proximity in Food System
Chapter 6 Animal Sacrifice: Meat and Food Justice
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Magfirah Dahlan

Summary

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death is a critical analysis of the religious and ethical narratives around modern practices of meat “production” and killing. The volume questions the focus on the humaneness of modern methods of animal slaughter and argues for reconsidering ancient religious practices of animal slaughter and sacrifice.

Product details

• Authors: Magfirah Dahlan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498541398
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4139-8
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ethics, Religious ethics