Kinship and Killing : : The Animal in World Religions / / Katherine Perlo.
Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints four different strategies for copi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Hebrew Bible
- 2. Judaism
- 3. Christianity
- 4. Islam
- 5. Buddhism
- 6. Change and the Effective- Defensive Strategy
- 7. Seeing as a Whole
- 8. The Problem of Oneness
- 9. Animal Rights
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index