A communion of subjects: animals in religion, science, and ethics

Animals in religion, science, and ethics : in and out of time -- Animals in Abrahamic traditions -- Animals in Indian traditions -- Animals in Chinese traditions -- East meets West : animals in philosophy and cultural history -- Animals in myth -- Animals in ritual -- Animals in art -- Animals as subjects : ethical implications for science -- Are animals for humans? the issues of factory farming -- Contemporary challenges : law, social justice, and the environment -- Animals and the law.;A Communion of Subjects is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of the conceptualization of animals in world religions. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including Thomas Berry (cultural history), Wendy Doniger (study of myth), Elizabeth Lawrence (veterinary medicine, ritual studies), Marc Bekoff (cognitive ethology), Marc Hauser (behavioral science), Steven Wise (animals and law), Peter Singer (animals and ethics), and Jane Goodall (primatology) consider how major religious traditions have incorporated animals into their belief systems, myths, rituals, an.