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Kinship and Killing: The Animal in World Religions
Paper, 292 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14623-4
$27.50
/ £19.00
March, 2009
Cloth, 292 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14622-7
$79.50
/ £55.00
"Katherine Wills Perlo has turned the traditional discourse on animals and religion inside out. Instead of focusing on the impact of religion on our treatment of animals, she reveals the distortions that our prejudices toward our nonhuman neighbors have had on religious teachings. A remarkable marriage of insightful scholarship and deep compassion, Kinship and Killing is a seminal work that will influence the direction of the debate on religion and animals for decades to come." — Norm Phelps, author of The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible
"Important and exciting, Kinship and Killing shows how the status of animals in major world religions arose as projections of the attitudes rooted in their respective cultures. The scholarship is rich, the writing is clear, and the critical evaluations are judicious. At last a study of animals and religions that deals with the negatives as well as the positives of each tradition and then critically evaluates modern theological commentators." — Julian H. Franklin, author of Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy