The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics

The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is a key reference source in this area, looking specifically at the role religion plays in the formation of ethics around these concerns. Featuring thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into two parts. The first gives an overview of fifteen of the major world religions’ attitudes towards animal ethics and protection. The second features five sections addressing the following topics: Human Interaction with Animals Killing and Exploitation Religious and Secular Law Evil and Theodicy Souls and Afterlife This handbook demonstrates that religious traditions, despite often being anthropocentric, do have much to offer to those seeking a framework for a more enlightened relationship between humans and non-human animals. As such, The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, theology, and animal ethics as well as those studying the philosophy of religion and ethics more generally.

Introduction: A New(er) Religious Ethic for Animals Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey Part I: Traditions 1. African Religions: Anthropocentrism and Animal Protection Kai Horsthemke 2. Anglican Christianity: Animal Questions for Christian Doctrine Lucy Gardner 3. Buddhism: Paradox and Practice—Morally Relevant Distinctions in the Buddhist Characterization of Animals Alex Bruce 4. Confucianism and Daoism: Animals in Traditional Chinese Thought Deborah Cao 5. Evangelical Christianity: Lord of Creation or Animal among Animals? Dominion, Darwin, and Duty Philip Sampson 6. Hinduism: Animating Samadhi—Rethinking Animal–Human Relationships through Yoga Kenneth Valpey 7. Islam: Ants, Birds, and Other Affable Creatures in the Qur’an, Hadith, and Sufi Literature Neal Robinson 8. Jainism: Animals and the Ethics of Intervention Joseph A. Tuminello III 9. Judaism: The Human Animal and All Other Animals—Dominion or Duty? Tony Bayfield 10. Mormonism: Harmony and Dissonance between Religion and Animal Ethics Christopher Foster 11. Native American Religion: Restoring Species to the Circle of Life Sidney Blankenship 12. Orthodox Christianity: Compassion for Animals Kallistos Ware 13. Rastafarianism: A Hermeneutic of Animal Care Adrian Anthony McFarlane 14. Roman Catholicism: A Strange Kind of Kindness—On Catholicism’s Moral Ambiguity toward Animals Kurt Remele 15. Sikh Dharam: Ethics and Behavior toward Animals Jagbir Jhutti-Johal Part II: Issues Human Interaction with Animals 16. "Nations like Yourselves": Some Muslim Debates over Qur’an 6:38 Tim Winter 17. Invoking Another World: An Interreligious Reflection on Hindu Mythology Michael Barnes 18. A New Ethic of Holiness: Celtic Saints and Their Kinship with Animals Edward C. Sellner 19. Franciscan Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation: A Creation without Creatures Andrea Barone Killing and Exploitation 20. Animals in Christian and Muslim Thought: Creatures, Creation, and Killing for Food Carl Tobias Frayne 21. "You Shall Not Eat Any Abominable Thing" (Deut. 14:3)—An Examination of the Old Testament Food Laws with Animal Ethics in Mind Deborah W. Rooke 22. Eden’s Diet: Christianity and Vegetarianism Samantha Jane Calvert 23. Religion, Ethics, and Vegetarianism: The Case of McDonald’s in India Kay Peggs 24. The Sacred and Mundane Cow: The History of India’s Cattle Protection Movement Kelsi Nagy 25. Exposing the Harm in Euthanasia: Ahimsa and an Alternative View on Animal Welfare as Expressed in the Beliefs and Practices of the Skanda Vale Ashram, West Wales Samantha Hurn Religious and Secular Law 26. Animals in Western Christian Canon Law Simon Pulleyn 27. Catholic Law on Bullfighting Margarita Carretero-González 28. Legal Responses to Questions of Animal Ethics and Religious Freedom Rachel Wechsler 29. Veganism as a Legally Protected Religion Lisa Johnson Evil and Theodicy 30. Gratuitous Animal Suffering and the Evidential Problem of Evil Max Elder 31. How Good Is Nature? The Fall, Evolution, and Predation Ryan Patrick McLaughlin 32. Evolution, Animal Suffering, and Ethics: A Response to Christopher Southgate Neil Messer Souls and Afterlife 33. Buddhist Rebirth, Reincarnation, and Animal Welfare Alex Bruce 34. A Spark Divine? Animal Souls and Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century Britain A. W. H. Bates 35. The Difference Bodily Resurrection Makes: Caring for Animals While Hoping for Heaven Margaret B. Adam

Andrew Linzey is the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; an honorary research fellow at St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford; and a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor of animal theology at the University of Winchester and a professor of animal ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana. Clair Linzey is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She holds an MA in theological studies from the University of St Andrews and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of St Andrews on the ecological theology of Leonardo Boff, with special consideration of the place of animals.