Religious vegetarianism (From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama)
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791449721
- ISBN10 0791449726
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 203
- Año de Edición 2001
- Encuadernación Rústica
Religious vegetarianism (From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama)
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Stretching back more than two thousand years and spanning diverse traditions, religious vegetarianism has an ancient and rich history. In this book, Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess gather writings that reflect devotional as well as more analytical responses to age-old questions of animal suffering, dietary practice, and human responsibility. 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. 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.