Communion of Subjects - Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics

Informationen zum 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). Klappentext "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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsEssay AbstractsHeritage of Volume - Mary Evelyn TuckerPrologue - Loneliness and Presence - Thomas BerryIntroduction - Paul Waldau and Kimberly PattonPart IPart II

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• Authors: Paul Patton Waldau
• Assisted by: Kimberley Chr. Patton (Editor), Kimberley Christine Patton (Editor), Patton Kimberley Christine (Editor), Paul Waldau (Editor), Waldau Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780231136433
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13643-3
• No. of pages: 720
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Animals and society