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| Author(s) : Walters, Kerry S and Portmess, Lisa |
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| ISBN : 0791449726 | | EAN : 9780791449721 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 192 | | Size : 225 x 150mm | | Publisher : State Univ New York | | Published : 2001 |
Category : Cookery and Vegetarianism
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Synopsis:
Stretching back more than 2,000 years and spanning diverse traditions, religious vegetarianism has an ancient and rich history. This anthology reflects devotional as well as analytical responses to age-old questions of animal suffering, dietary practice and human responsibility, including writings from ancient Greece to India, and Buddhist, Judaic, Christian and Islamic thought.
Interesting both to those well-versed in the literature of vegetarianism as well as to others encountering it for the first time, are tensions within traditions over the use of animals for food - whether such use is consonant with fundamental values of the faith, whether religious law or tradition requires vegetarian practice, and what place animals are thought to hold in the order of nature.
"A stimulating collection of diverse and often out-of-the-way texts. The contrast between Eastern and Western religious texts on vegetarianism should prove to be especially thought-provoking for adherents of Western religions."Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. |
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