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A communion of subjects : animals in religion, science, and ethics / Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton, editors.

Contributor(s): Waldau, Paul | Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xxxi, 686 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0231136420 (alk. paper); 9780231136426 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Animals -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 205/.693 LOC classification: BL439 | .C66 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Heritage of the volume / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Prologue: loneliness and presence / Thomas Berry -- Introduction / Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton -- "Caught with ourselves in the net of life and time": traditional views of animals in religion / Kimberley Patton -- Seeing the terrain we walk: features of the contemporary landscape of "religion and animals" / Paul Waldau -- Sacrifice in ancient Israel: pure bodies, domesticated animals, and the divine shepherd / Jonathan Klawans -- Hope for the animal kingdom: a Jewish vision / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Hierarchy, kinship, and responsibility: the Jewish relationship to the animal world / Roberta Kalechofsky -- The bestiary of heretics: imaging Medieval Christian Heresy with insects and animals / Beverly Kienzle -- Descartes, Christianity, and contemporary speciesism / Gary Steiner -- Practicing the presence of God: a Christian approach to animals / Jay McDaniel -- "This she-camel of God is a sign to you": dimensions of animals in Islamic tradition and Muslim culture / Richard Foltz -- The case of the animals versus man: towards an ecology of being / Zayn Kassam -- "Oh that I could be a birds and fly, I would rush to the beloved": birds in Islamic mystical poetry / Ali Asani -- Cows, elephants, dogs, and other lesser embodiments of Atman: reflections on Hindu attitudes toward nonhuman animals / Lance Nelson -- Strategies of Vedic subversion: the emergence of vegetarianism in post-Vedic India / Edwin Bryant -- "A vast unsupervised recycling plant": animals and the Buddhist cosmos / Ian Harris -- Snake-kings, boars' heads, deer parks, monkey talk: animals as transmitters and transformers in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist narratives / Ivette Vargas -- Inherent value without nostalgia: animals and the Jaina tradition / Christopher Chapple -- Five-sensed animals in Jainism / Kristi Wiley --
"Of a tawny bull we make offering": animals in early Chinese religion / Roel Sterckx -- Daoism and animals / E.N. Anderson and Lisa Raphals -- Of animals and humans: the Confucian perspective / Rodney Taylor -- Human exceptionalism versus cultural elitism: (or "three in the morning, four at night") / Roger Ames -- Humans and animals: the history from a religio-ecological perspective / Jordan Paper -- A symbol in search of an object: the mythology of horses in India / Wendy Doniger -- "Why Umbulka killed his master": Aboriginal reconciliation and the Australian wild dog (canis lupus dingo) / Ian McIntosh -- Knowing and being known by animals: indigenous perspectives on personhood / John Grim -- Metaphysics of the sublimated victim / Kimberley Patton -- Hunting the wren: a sacred bird in ritual / Elizabeth Lawrence -- Ridiculus Mus: of mice and men in Roman thought / Christopher McDonough -- Raven augury from Tibet to Alaska: dialects, divine agency, and the bird's eye view / Eric Mortensen -- On the Dynamis of animals, or how Animalium became Anthropos / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Wild justice, social cognition, fairness, and morality: a deep appreciation for the subjective lives of animals / Marc Bekoff -- From cognition to consciousness / Donal Griffin -- Are animals moral agents? Evolutionary building blocks of morality / Marc Hauser -- Ethics, biotechnology, and animals / Bernard Rollin -- Animal experimentation / Kenneth Shapiro -- Caring for farm animals: pastoralist ideals in an industrialized world / David Fraser -- Agriculture, livestock, and biotechnology: values, profits, and ethics / Michael Fox -- Agribusiness: farming without culture / Gary Valen -- Animal law and animal sacrifice: analysis of the U.S. Supreme court ruling on Santeria animal sacrifice in Hialeah -- "A very rare and difficult thing": ecofeminism, attention to animal suffering, and the disappearance of the subject / Carol Adams -- Interlocking oppressions: the nature of cruelty to nonhuman animals and its relationship to violence toward humans / Kim Roberts -- Animal protection and the problem of religion / Peter Singer -- Earth charter ethics and animals / Steven Rockefeller -- Pushing environmental justice to a natural limit / Paul Waldau -- Conclusion: a communion of subjects and a multiplicity of intelligences / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Epilogue: the dance of awe / Jane Goodall

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Heritage of the volume / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Prologue: loneliness and presence / Thomas Berry -- Introduction / Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton -- "Caught with ourselves in the net of life and time": traditional views of animals in religion / Kimberley Patton -- Seeing the terrain we walk: features of the contemporary landscape of "religion and animals" / Paul Waldau -- Sacrifice in ancient Israel: pure bodies, domesticated animals, and the divine shepherd / Jonathan Klawans -- Hope for the animal kingdom: a Jewish vision / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Hierarchy, kinship, and responsibility: the Jewish relationship to the animal world / Roberta Kalechofsky -- The bestiary of heretics: imaging Medieval Christian Heresy with insects and animals / Beverly Kienzle -- Descartes, Christianity, and contemporary speciesism / Gary Steiner -- Practicing the presence of God: a Christian approach to animals / Jay McDaniel -- "This she-camel of God is a sign to you": dimensions of animals in Islamic tradition and Muslim culture / Richard Foltz -- The case of the animals versus man: towards an ecology of being / Zayn Kassam -- "Oh that I could be a birds and fly, I would rush to the beloved": birds in Islamic mystical poetry / Ali Asani -- Cows, elephants, dogs, and other lesser embodiments of Atman: reflections on Hindu attitudes toward nonhuman animals / Lance Nelson -- Strategies of Vedic subversion: the emergence of vegetarianism in post-Vedic India / Edwin Bryant -- "A vast unsupervised recycling plant": animals and the Buddhist cosmos / Ian Harris -- Snake-kings, boars' heads, deer parks, monkey talk: animals as transmitters and transformers in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist narratives / Ivette Vargas -- Inherent value without nostalgia: animals and the Jaina tradition / Christopher Chapple -- Five-sensed animals in Jainism / Kristi Wiley --

"Of a tawny bull we make offering": animals in early Chinese religion / Roel Sterckx -- Daoism and animals / E.N. Anderson and Lisa Raphals -- Of animals and humans: the Confucian perspective / Rodney Taylor -- Human exceptionalism versus cultural elitism: (or "three in the morning, four at night") / Roger Ames -- Humans and animals: the history from a religio-ecological perspective / Jordan Paper -- A symbol in search of an object: the mythology of horses in India / Wendy Doniger -- "Why Umbulka killed his master": Aboriginal reconciliation and the Australian wild dog (canis lupus dingo) / Ian McIntosh -- Knowing and being known by animals: indigenous perspectives on personhood / John Grim -- Metaphysics of the sublimated victim / Kimberley Patton -- Hunting the wren: a sacred bird in ritual / Elizabeth Lawrence -- Ridiculus Mus: of mice and men in Roman thought / Christopher McDonough -- Raven augury from Tibet to Alaska: dialects, divine agency, and the bird's eye view / Eric Mortensen -- On the Dynamis of animals, or how Animalium became Anthropos / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Wild justice, social cognition, fairness, and morality: a deep appreciation for the subjective lives of animals / Marc Bekoff -- From cognition to consciousness / Donal Griffin -- Are animals moral agents? Evolutionary building blocks of morality / Marc Hauser -- Ethics, biotechnology, and animals / Bernard Rollin -- Animal experimentation / Kenneth Shapiro -- Caring for farm animals: pastoralist ideals in an industrialized world / David Fraser -- Agriculture, livestock, and biotechnology: values, profits, and ethics / Michael Fox -- Agribusiness: farming without culture / Gary Valen -- Animal law and animal sacrifice: analysis of the U.S. Supreme court ruling on Santeria animal sacrifice in Hialeah -- "A very rare and difficult thing": ecofeminism, attention to animal suffering, and the disappearance of the subject / Carol Adams -- Interlocking oppressions: the nature of cruelty to nonhuman animals and its relationship to violence toward humans / Kim Roberts -- Animal protection and the problem of religion / Peter Singer -- Earth charter ethics and animals / Steven Rockefeller -- Pushing environmental justice to a natural limit / Paul Waldau -- Conclusion: a communion of subjects and a multiplicity of intelligences / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Epilogue: the dance of awe / Jane Goodall

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