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This book offers an up-to-date examination of the nature and
development of animal theology. It considers what animal theology
is and how it challenges, and is challenged by, liberation and
ecological theology. At the heart of the work is a critical
engagement with the Brazilian ecotheologian Leonardo Boff. Clair
Linzey addresses ideas that originate from the papal encyclical
Laudato Si' and considers how Pope Francis is developing an animal
friendly tradition within Catholicism. Exploring new vistas in
animal theology, this volume makes a valuable to contribution to
debates on how religion should be concerned with animals and the
environment. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to
know the current state of debate with animal theology and its
effects on the wider Christian community.
The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly
significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet
with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural
world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is a
key reference source in this area, looking specifically at the role
religion plays in the formation of ethics around these concerns.
Featuring thirty-five chapters by a team of international
contributors, the handbook is divided into two parts. The first
gives an overview of fifteen of the major world religions'
attitudes towards animal ethics and protection. The second features
five sections addressing the following topics: Human Interaction
with Animals Killing and Exploitation Religious and Secular Law
Evil and Theodicy Souls and Afterlife This handbook 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. As
such, The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is
essential reading for students and researchers in religious
studies, theology, and animal ethics as well as those studying the
philosophy of religion and ethics more generally.
The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most
significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with
animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem
than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human
consumption. This book argues that vegetarians and vegans are not
only protestors, but also moral pioneers. It provides 25 chapters
which stimulate further thought, exchange, and reflection on the
morality of eating meat. A rich array of philosophical, religious,
historical, cultural, and practical approaches challenge our
assumptions about animals and how we should relate to them. This
book provides global perspectives with insights from 11 countries:
US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands,
Canada, South Africa, and Sweden. Focusing on food consumption
practices, it critically foregrounds and unpacks key ethical
rationales that underpin vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. It
invites us to revisit our relations with animals as food, and as
subjects of exploitation, suggesting that there are substantial
moral, economic, and environmental reasons for changing our habits.
This timely contribution, edited by two of the leading experts
within the field, offers a rich array of interdisciplinary insights
on what ethical vegetarianism and veganism means. It will be of
great interest to those studying and researching in the fields of
animal geography and animal-studies, sociology, food studies and
consumption, environmental studies, and cultural studies. This book
will be of great appeal to animal protectionists,
environmentalists, and humanitarians.
This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and
theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics.
Leading experts from around the globe offer insights into cutting
edge topics as diverse as killing for food, religious slaughter,
animal companions, aquariums, genetic manipulation, hunting for
sport and bullfighting. Including contributions from Lisa Johnson
on the themes of human dominance, Thomas White on the ethics of
captivity, Mark Bernstein on the ethics of killing and Kay Peggs on
the causation of suffering, this handbook offers an authoritative
reference work for contemporary applied animal ethics. Progressive
in approach, the authors explore the challenges that animal ethics
poses both conceptually and practically to traditional
understandings of human-animal relations. Key Features: *
Structured in four parts to examine the ethics of control, the
ethics of captivity, the ethics of killing and the ethics of
causing suffering * Interdisciplinary approach including
philosophical, historical, scientific, legal, anthropological,
religious, psychological and sociological perspectives * Focussed
treatment of practical issues such as animals in farming, zoos and
animal experimentation The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal
Ethics is an essential resource for those with an interest in the
ethics of modern-day treatment of animals as well as scholars,
researchers and advanced students in zoology, philosophy,
anthropology, religious studies and sociology.
This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and
theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics.
Leading experts from around the globe offer insights into cutting
edge topics as diverse as killing for food, religious slaughter,
animal companions, aquariums, genetic manipulation, hunting for
sport and bullfighting. Including contributions from Lisa Johnson
on the themes of human dominance, Thomas White on the ethics of
captivity, Mark Bernstein on the ethics of killing and Kay Peggs on
the causation of suffering, this handbook offers an authoritative
reference work for contemporary applied animal ethics. Progressive
in approach, the authors explore the challenges that animal ethics
poses both conceptually and practically to traditional
understandings of human-animal relations. Key Features: *
Structured in four parts to examine the ethics of control, the
ethics of captivity, the ethics of killing and the ethics of
causing suffering * Interdisciplinary approach including
philosophical, historical, scientific, legal, anthropological,
religious, psychological and sociological perspectives * Focussed
treatment of practical issues such as animals in farming, zoos and
animal experimentation The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal
Ethics is an essential resource for those with an interest in the
ethics of modern-day treatment of animals as well as scholars,
researchers and advanced students in zoology, philosophy,
anthropology, religious studies and sociology.
The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry. It is estimated
that over 100 million animals are killed in fur farms worldwide
annually. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the state of
fur factory farming worldwide, and an ethical critique of the main
arguments propounded by the fur industry. Consideration is also
given to an attempt to justify fur farming through the concept of
"Welfur." Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey argue that from any
ethical perspective, fur factory farming fails basic moral tests.
The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most
significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with
animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem
than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human
consumption. This book argues that vegetarians and vegans are not
only protestors, but also moral pioneers. It provides 25 chapters
which stimulate further thought, exchange, and reflection on the
morality of eating meat. A rich array of philosophical, religious,
historical, cultural, and practical approaches challenge our
assumptions about animals and how we should relate to them. This
book provides global perspectives with insights from 11 countries:
US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands,
Canada, South Africa, and Sweden. Focusing on food consumption
practices, it critically foregrounds and unpacks key ethical
rationales that underpin vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. It
invites us to revisit our relations with animals as food, and as
subjects of exploitation, suggesting that there are substantial
moral, economic, and environmental reasons for changing our habits.
This timely contribution, edited by two of the leading experts
within the field, offers a rich array of interdisciplinary insights
on what ethical vegetarianism and veganism means. It will be of
great interest to those studying and researching in the fields of
animal geography and animal-studies, sociology, food studies and
consumption, environmental studies, and cultural studies. This book
will be of great appeal to animal protectionists,
environmentalists, and humanitarians.
The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly
significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet
with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural
world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is a
key reference source in this area, looking specifically at the role
religion plays in the formation of ethics around these concerns.
Featuring thirty-five chapters by a team of international
contributors, the handbook is divided into two parts. The first
gives an overview of fifteen of the major world religions'
attitudes towards animal ethics and protection. The second features
five sections addressing the following topics: Human Interaction
with Animals Killing and Exploitation Religious and Secular Law
Evil and Theodicy Souls and Afterlife This handbook 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. As
such, The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is
essential reading for students and researchers in religious
studies, theology, and animal ethics as well as those studying the
philosophy of religion and ethics more generally.
Many people who have thought about God have not thought about
animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those
who have are some of the most celebrated religious thinkers,
including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John
Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and
Paul Tillich. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that
detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most
religious traditions. The editors have brought together Jewish,
Unitarian, Christian, transcendentalist, Muslim, Hindu, Dissenting,
deist, and Quaker voices, each offering a unique theological
perspective that counters the neglect of the nonhuman. Animal
Theologians is divided into three parts starting with the pioneers
who first saw a relationship between animals and divinity, those
who contributed to the expansion of social sensibility to animals,
and ending with the work of contemporary theologians. The essays in
this volume use contextual and historical background to describe
what led animal theologians to their beliefs, and then pave way for
further developments in this expanding field. This volume is an act
of reclaiming different religious traditions for animals by
recovering lost voices.
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Animal Ethics for Veterinarians (Paperback)
Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey; Contributions by Journal of Animal Ethics, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Vanessa Carli Bones, …
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Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal
suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise
have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their
care. However, modern interest in animal rights has led more and
more people to ask questions about the ethical considerations that
lie behind common veterinary practices. This Common Threads volume,
drawn from articles originally published in the Journal of Animal
Ethics (JAE), offers veterinarians and other interested readers a
primer on key issues in the field. Essays in the first section
discuss aspects of veterinary oaths, how advances in animal
cognition science factor into current ethical debates, and the rise
of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine and its
relationship to traditional veterinary medicine. The second section
continues with an essay that addresses why veterinarians have an
obligation to educate animal caregivers to look past "cuteness" in
order to treat all animals with dignity. The collection closes with
three short sections focusing on animals in farming, trade, and
research ”areas where veterinarians encounter conflicts between
their job and their duty to advocate and care for animals.
Contributors: Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Vanessa Carli Bones, Grace
Clement, Simon Coghlan, Priscilla N. Cohn, Mark J. Estren, Elisa
Galgut, Eleonora Gullone, Matthew C. Halteman, Andrew Knight, Drew
Leder, Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey, Kay Peggs, Megan Schommer,
Clifford Warwick, and James W. Yeates.
At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3
million animals in experiments-a normalization of the unthinkable
on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death,
animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our
time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, the
contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a
special moral consideration that precludes their use in
experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins
with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and
comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal
experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage
with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The
essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal
perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times
to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's
painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at
a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal
Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful
challenge to human cruelty.
This is the first multidisciplinary book that addresses the ethics
of fur. Whatever might have been true of the past, the production
of fur is now morally problematic in terms of both necessity and
suffering. There is no necessity in killing animals for
nonessential purposes, such as adornment, fashion, or vanity. The
argument for utility simply doesn’t hold up. Alternative clothing
is now readily available, enduring, and less costly. Worse still,
since we know that the animals exploited are sentient, causing them
suffering or making animals liable to suffering is arguably
intrinsically wrong. The purpose of this volume is to open up and
advance further the ethical, political, and specifically
legislative endeavors now moving at pace and to encourage the
anti-fur movement. That said, there is much to learn from this book
about the history, culture, and political arguments for and against
fur that should interest scholars and students, as well as those
engaged on either side of the debate. It is not common for
academics to engage with pressing and contentious moral issues, and
we pay tribute to our eighteen contributors for leading the way.
At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3
million animals in experiments-a normalization of the unthinkable
on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death,
animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our
time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, the
contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a
special moral consideration that precludes their use in
experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins
with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and
comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal
experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage
with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The
essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal
perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times
to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's
painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at
a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal
Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful
challenge to human cruelty.
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