A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics

Contents

Acknowledgments

Essay Abstracts

Heritage of the Volume

MARY EVELYN TUCKER

Loneliness and Presence

PAUL WALDAU AND KIMBERLEY PATTON

Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics:
In and Out of Time

“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”

Animals in Abrahamic Traditions

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

Practicing the Presence of God:
A Christian Approach to Animals

“This she-camel of God is a sign to you”:
Dimensions of Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Culture

The Case of the Animals Versus Man:
Towards an Ecology of Being

“Oh that I could be a bird and fly, I would rush to the Beloved”: Birds in Islamic Mystical Poetry

Animals in Indian Traditions

Cows, Elephants, Dogs, and Other Lesser Embodiments of Ātman:
Reflections on Hindu Attitudes Toward Nonhuman Animals

Strategies of Vedic Subversion:
The Emergence of Vegetarianism in Post-Vedic India

“A vast unsupervised recycling plant”:
Animals and the Buddhist Cosmos

Snake-kings, Boars’ Heads, Deer Parks, Monkey Talk:
Animals as Transmitters and Transformers in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Narratives

Inherent Value without Nostalgia:
Animals and the Jaina Tradition

CHRISTOPHER CHAPPLE

Five-Sensed Animals in Jainism

Animals in Chinese Traditions

Early Chinese Religion

“Of a tawny bull we make offering”:
Animals in Early Chinese Religion

Daoism and Animals

E. N. ANDERSON AND LISA RAPHALS

Of Animals and Humans:
The Confucian Perspectiv

East Meets West:
Animals in Philosophy and Cultural History

Human Exceptionalism Versus Cultural Elitism:
(Or “Three in the morning, four at night”)

Humans and Animals:
The History from a Religio-Ecological Perspective

Animals in Myth

A Symbol in Search of an Object:
The Mythology of Horses in India

Animals in African Mythology

“Why Umbulka Killed His Master”:
Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Australian Wild Dog (Canis lupus dingo)

Animals in Ritual

Knowing and Being Known by Animals:
Indigenous Perspectives on Personhood

Animal Sacrifice:
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

On the Dynamis of Animals, or How Animalium Became Anthropos

DIANE APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA

Animals as Subjects:
Ethical Implications for Science

Wild Justice, Social Cognition, Fairness, and Morality: A Deep Appreciation for the Subjective Lives of Animals

From Cognition to Consciousness

Are Animals Moral Agents? Evolutionary Building Blocks of Morality

Ethics, Biotechnology, and Animals

Animal Experimentation

KENNETH SHAPIRO

Are Animals “for” Humans? The Issues of Factory Farming

Caring for Farm Animals:
Pastoralist Ideals in an Industrialized World

Agriculture, Livestock, and Biotechnology:
Values, Profits, and Ethics

Agribusiness: Farming Without Culture

Contemporary Challenges:
Law, Social Justice, and the Environment

Animals and the Law

Animal Law and Animal Sacrifice:
Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Santería Animal Sacrifice in Hialeah

Animals and Social Justice

“A very rare and difficult thing”:
Ecofeminism, Attention to Animal Suffering, and the Disappearance of the Subject

Interlocking Oppressions:
The Nature of Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals and its Relationship to Violence Toward Humans

Animal Protection and the Problem of Religion

Animals and Global Stewardship

Earth Charter Ethics and Animals

STEVEN ROCKEFELLER

Pushing Environmental Justice to a Natural Limit

A Communion of Subjects and a Multiplicity of Intelligences

MARY EVELYN TUCKER

The Dance of Awe

List of Contributors