The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics

Herausgeber: Linzey, Andrew; Linzey, Clair

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook looks specifically at the role religion plays in the ethical treatment of non-human animals. It demonstrates that religious traditions, despite often being anthropocentric, do have much to offer to those seeking a framework for a more enlightened relationship between humans and non-human animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780367733148
• ISBN-10: 0367733145
• Artikelnr.: 67074706

Autorenporträt

Andrew Linzey is the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; an honorary research fellow at St Stephen's House, University of Oxford; and a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor of animal theology at the University of Winchester and a professor of animal ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana. Clair Linzey is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She holds an MA in theological studies from the University of St Andrews and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of St Andrews on the ecological theology of Leonardo Boff, with special consideration of the place of animals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward a New(er) Religious Ethic for Animals Part I:
Traditions 1. African Religions: Anthropocentrism and Animal Protection 2.
Anglican Christianity: Animal Questions for Christian Doctrine 3. Buddhism:
Paradox and Practice-Morally Relevant Distinctions in the Buddhist
Characterization of Animals 4. Confucianism and Daoism: Animals in
Traditional Chinese Thought 5. Evangelical Christianity: Lord of Creation
or Animal among Animals? Dominion, Darwin, and Duty 6. Hinduism: Animating
Samadhi-Rethinking Animal-Human Relationships through Yoga 7. Islam: Ants,
Birds, and Other Affable Creatures in the Qur'an, Hadith, and Sufi
Literature 8. Jainism: Animals and the Ethics of Intervention 9. Judaism:
The Human Animal and All Other Animals-Dominion or Duty? 10. Mormonism:
Harmony and Dissonance between Religion and Animal Ethics 11. Native
American Religion: Restoring Species to the Circle of Life 12. Orthodox
Christianity: Compassion for Animals 13. Rastafarianism: A Hermeneutic of
Animal Care 14. Roman Catholicism: A Strange Kind of Kindness-On
Catholicism's Moral Ambiguity toward Animals 15. Sikh Dharam: Ethics and
Behavior toward Animals Part II: Issues Human Interaction with Animals 16.
"Nations like Yourselves": Some Muslim Debates over Qur'an 6:38 17.
Invoking Another World: An Interreligious Reflection on Hindu Mythology 18.
A New Ethic of Holiness: Celtic Saints and Their Kinship with Animals 19.
Franciscan Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation: A Creation
without Creatures Killing and Exploitation 20. Animals in Christian and
Muslim Thought: Creatures, Creation, and Killing for Food 21. "You Shall
Not Eat Any Abominable Thing" (Deut. 14:3)-An Examination of the Old
Testament Food Laws with Animal Ethics in Mind 22. Eden's Diet:
Christianity and Vegetarianism 23. Religion, Ethics, and Vegetarianism: The
Case of McDonald's in India 24. The Sacred and Mundane Cow: The History of
India's Cattle Protection Movement 25. Exposing the Harm in Euthanasia:
Ahimsa and an Alternative View on Animal Welfare as Expressed in the
Beliefs and Practices of the Skanda Vale Ashram, West Wales Religious and
Secular Law 26. Animals in Western Christian Canon Law 27. Catholic Law on
Bullfighting 28. Legal Responses to Questions of Animal Ethics and
Religious Freedom 29. Veganism as a Legally Protected Religion Evil and
Theodicy 30. Gratuitous Animal Suffering and the Evidential Problem of Evil
31. How Good Is Nature? The Fall, Evolution, and Predation 32. Evolution,
Animal Suffering, and Ethics: A Response to Christopher Southgate Souls and
Afterlife 33. Buddhist Rebirth, Reincarnation, and Animal Welfare 34. A
Spark Divine? Animal Souls and Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century Britain
35. The Difference Bodily Resurrection Makes: Caring for Animals While
Hoping for Heaven