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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Essay Abstracts
Heritage of the Volume
Prologue: Loneliness and Presence
Introduction
I. 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
Seeing the Terrain We Walk: Features of the Contemporary Landscape of “Religion and Animals”
II. Animals in Abrahamic Traditions: Judaism
Sacrifice in Ancient Israel: Pure Bodies, Domesticated Animals, and the Divine Shepherd
Hope for the Animal Kingdom: A Jewish Vision
Hierarchy, Kinship, and Responsibility: The Jewish Relationship to the Animal World
Christianity
The Bestiary of Heretics: Imaging Medieval Christian Heresy with Insects and Animals
Descartes, Christianity, and Contemporary Speciesism
Practicing the Presence of God: A Christian Approach to Animals
Islam
“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
III. Animals in Indian Traditions: Hinduism
Cows, Elephants, Dogs, and Other Lesser Embodiments of Atman: Reflections on Hindu Attitudes Toward Nonhuman Animals
Strategies of Vedic Subversion: The Emergence of Vegetarianism in Post-Vedic India
Buddhism
“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
Jainism
Inherent Value without Nostalgia: Animals and the Jaina Tradition
Five-Sensed Animals in Jainism
IV. Animals in Chinese Traditions: Early Chinese Religion
“Of a tawny bull we make offering”: Animals in Early Chinese Religion
Daoism
Daoism and Animals
Confucianism
Of Animals and Humans: The Confucian Perspectiv
V. 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
VI. 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)
VII. Animals in Ritual
Knowing and Being Known by Animals: Indigenous Perspectives on Personhood
Animal Sacrifice: Metaphysics of the Sublimated Victim
Hunting the Wren: A Sacred Bird in Ritual
Ridiculus Mus: Of Mice and Men in Roman Thought
Raven Augury from Tibet to Alaska: Dialects, Divine Agency, and the Bird’s-Eye View
VIII. Animals in Art 437
On the Dynamis of Animals, or How Animalium Became Anthropos
IX. 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
X. 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
XI. 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
Pushing Environmental Justice to a Natural Limit
Conclusion
A Communion of Subjects and a Multiplicity of Intelligences
Epilogue
The Dance of Awe
List of Contributors
Index
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