Christianity and COVID-19: Pathways for Faith by
This volume explores current understandings of the global meaning of faith and suffering in the context of COVID-19 and interrogates responses to the pandemic that have emerged from World Christianity.
Animals and Religion by
This volume demonstrates how animals have played key roles in every known religious tradition and how animals have crucially shaped how we understand ourselves, the other living beings around us, and our relationships with them.
Animal Theologians by
Comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions. The editors have brought together Jewish, Unitarian, Christian, transcendentalist, Muslim, Hindu, Dissenting, deist, and Quaker voices, each offering a unique theological perspective that counters the neglect of the nonhuman.
Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society (Online) by
Promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Living with Animals: Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect by
Brings a pragmatist ecofeminist perspective to discussions around animal rights, animal welfare, and animal ethics to move the conversation beyond simple use or non-use decisions.
The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals by
This volume presents stories from Christianity in which animals are the companions of saints, prisoners in the Roman arenas along with the martyrs, conveyors of wisdom teachings, and teachers of compassion. This book develops materials for discussion of the more central roles of animals in Christianity.
Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil by
An examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process. Uses the parable of the wheat and the tares as a hermeneutical lens for understanding the tragedy and beauty of evolutionary history.
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics (Online) by
This volume brings together scholars, farmers, and activists from various religious traditions to show the connections between religions and sustainable agriculture.
Food, Farming and Religion: Emerging Ethical Perspectives by
This book is an examination of how Abrahamic religious traditions in the United States respond to environmental ethical issues around agriculture and food. Van Wieren’s approach is from the perspective of comparative religious environmental ethics as she attempts to articulate a food ethic that spans these traditions.
Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Online) by
Provides a theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, and anthropological insights, it offers fresh ways to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial food economy.
Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by
Ofers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns.
Rooted and Grounded: Essays on Land and Christian Discipleship by
Calls the church to root itself more deeply in the agrarian biblical text and ecclesial tradition in order to remember and freshly imagine ways of living on and with the land that are restorative, reconciling, and faithful to the triune God's invitation to new life in Christ.
The Common Good and the Global Emergency by
Provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, applying this to the built environment. This framework is used to discuss and highlight issues regarding place, transport, food and farming, and as such explains the relation of Christianity to the built world in which we live.
Food, Farming, and Faith by
Using scripture and science, a Christian agricultural scientist presents an ethic of farming that promotes good food and a healthy environment.
In Defense of the Land Ethic by
Presents the seminal environmental philosophy of Aldo Leopold. Engages in lively debate with proponents of animal liberation and rights--finally to achieve an integrated theory of animal welfare and environmental ethics. He critically discusses the land ethic that is alleged to have prevailed among traditional American Indian peoples and points toward a new and equally revolutionary environmental aesthetic.
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