Rövid leírás:
Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions.
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Hosszú leírás:
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.
This insightful anthology is a treasure trove of often hidden gems. This parade of writings, from the early pioneers to the most current thought leaders, offers a library of resources for all who wish to deepen their understanding of animal theology. Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey have given us a wonderful gift.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
About the Editors and the Contributors
Introduction: „Before Animal Theology”
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Part 1: Prophets and Pioneers
Chapter 1.1: Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): Vegetarianism and the Beatific Vision
Justin Begley
Chapter 1.2: Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592): Elephant Theologians
Kathleen Long
Chapter 1.3: Thomas Tryon (1634 – 1703): A Theology of Animal Enslavement
Adam Bridgen
Chapter 1.4: John Wesley (1703 – 1791): The Tension between Theological Hope and Biological Reality
Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
Chapter 1.5: Humphry Primatt (1735-1777): Animal Protection and its Revolutionary Contexts
Adam Bridgen
Chapter 1.6: William Bartram (1739 – 1823): A Quaker-Inspired Animal Advocacy
Michael J. Gilmour
Chapter 1.7: Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862): Capturing the „Anima” in Animals
Wesley T. Mott
Part 2: Social Sensibility
Chapter 2.1: John Ruskin (1819 – 1900): „Beholding Birds”: A Visual Case against Vivisection
Linda Johnson
Chapter 2.2: Frances Power Cobbe (1822 – 1904): Theology, Science, and the Anti-Vivisection Movement
Chien-hui Li
Chapter 2.3: Frank Buckland (1826 – 1880) and Henry Parry Liddon (1829 – 1890): Vivisection in Oxford
Serenhedd James
Chapter 2.4: Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910): Literature and the Lives of Animals
Alice Crary
Chapter 2.5: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844 – 1911): Writer and Reformer
Robyn Hederman
Chapter 2.6: Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849 – 1905): The Transvaal Fatwa, and the Fate of Animals
Nuri Friedlander
Chapter 2.7: Josiah Oldfield (1863 – 1953): „You can’t trust a fellow who lives on nuts”: Vegetarianism and the Order of the Golden Age in nineteenth-century Britain
A. W. H. Bates
Chapter 2.8: Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935): Biblical Ethics as the Basis of Rav Kook’s A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace
Idan Breier
Chapter 2.9: Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 – 1948): In the Service of All that Lives: The Vision of Engaged Nonviolent Animal Care
Kenneth R. Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami)
Part 3: Deeper Probing
Chapter 3.1: Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965): The Life of Reverence
Carl Tobias Frayne
Chapter 3.2: Martin Buber (1878 – 1965): Encountering Animals: A Prelude to the Animal Question
Ryan Brand
Chapter 3.3: Paul Tillich (1886 – 1965): The Method of Correlation and the Possibility of an Animal Ethic
Abbey Smith
Chapter 3.4: Charles Hartshorne (1897 – 2000): Animals in Process Thought
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Chapter 3.5: C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963): Rethinking Dominion: C. S. Lewis and the Sleek, Purring Panther
Michael J. Gilmour
Chapter 3.6: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 – 1991): ‘Myriads of cows and fowls … ready to take revenge’
Beruriah Wiegand
Chapter 3.7: J–rgen Moltmann (1926 -): Creation and Sabbath Theology
Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
Chapter 3.8: Andrew Linzey (1952 -): Animal Theology
Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
Index
