Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791449726 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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James F. He points out how like us the animals are, as they sing and dance and love as we do. Religious Vegetarianism, on the other hand, is entirely about the justification of vegetarianism through the doctrines of several major religious traditions. This structure necessarily renders the book uneven in style, and it is best used by beginning scholars as a basic sourcebook. Religious historian Walters (Benjamin Franklin and His Gods, LJ 1/90) and Portmess (philosophy, Gettysburg Coll.) divide the book into sections on the Orphic-Pythagorean tradit
A Customer said It was worth the wait!. I've been looking forward to the publication of this book ever since I heard it was in the works two years ago. It was worth every bit of the wait. It's an excellent companion to Walters and Portmess Ethical Vegetarianism, but it's also a fine book by itself. It discusses religious justifications of vegetarianism from a number of religious traditions. I was especially intrigued . A badly-needed break This book is a breath of fresh air. All we hear about today when it comes to religions is how they breed intolerance and violence. That may be so for the most part, but Religious Vegetarianism shows the other side. All the major world traditions also have a core of peacefulness and love that extends to humans, animals, and the earth itself. This book shows one way that this core. A Customer said Informative. This book is an eyeopener. For the vegetarian as well as the nonvegetarian. It gives a good account of how different religious faiths around the world and across time have preached a meatless diet. It's pretty well known that buddhists and hindus preach vegetarianism, but I was particularly interested to learn there is a strong tradition of vegetarianism in the Jewish and Christ
Kerry S. . Walters is Professor of Philosophy and Lisa Portmess is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Gettysburg College
These include writings from ancient Orphic and Pythagorean authors, writings that span centuries of Indian and Buddhist thought, and writings from the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions. An anthology of writings on vegetarianism from a wide range of religious traditions.Stretching back more than two thousand years and spanning diverse traditions, religious vegetarianism has an ancient and rich history. In this book, Kerry S. 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.Classic and contemporary contributors include Carol J. 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. Adams, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Hesiod, Kabir, Roberta Kalechofsky, Abraham Isaac Kook, Andrew Linzey, Ovid, and Tom Regan, among others.“An anthology of the caliber of Religious Vegetarianism makes a wonderful case for the ability of scholars today to be able to go into the oldest, most established traditions or codified enti