Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Animals, Religion, and Culture

Books:

  • Allen, B. (2016) Animals in Religion: Devotion, Symbol and Ritual. London: Reaktion
  • Berkowitz, B. A. (2018) Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Berry, T. (2016) The cosmic common good: religious grounds for ecological ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • DeMello, M. and Kalof, L. (eds) (2016) Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death. Michigan State University Press.
  • Detweiler, F. (2013) The Moral Foundations of Tlingit Cosmology. Harvey, G. (ed.) The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. London: Routledge
  • Gilhus, I. S. (2006) Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Ideas. London: Routledge.
  • Gross, A. and Vallely, A. (eds.) (2012) Animals and the Human Imagination: A Companion to Animal Studies. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Hill, E. (2011) Animals as Agents: Hunting Ritual and Relational Ontologies in Prehistoric Alaska and Chukotka. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 21(3), 407-426.
  • Hitch, S. & Rutherford, I. (ed.) (2017) Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. Cambride: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jones, D. M. (2009) The School of Compassion: A Roman Catholic Theology of Animals. Leominster: Gracewing.
  • Kemmerer, L. (2011) Animals and world religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Linzey, A. (1999) Animal rites: Liturgies of Animal Care. London: SCM Press
  • Linzey, A. and Linzey, C. (eds.) (2018) Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics. London: Routledge.
  • Livarda, A. et al. ed., (2018) The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion, 1st ed. Oxford: Oxbow
  • Mattila, R., Ito, S. & Fink, S. (ed.) (2019) Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World. Wiesbaden: Springer
  • Newmyer, S. T. 2010. Animals in Greek and Roman Thought. London: Routledge
  • Waldau, P. and Patton, K.C. (eds.) (2006) A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Willerslev, R. (2007) Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood Among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

 

Articles & Chapters:

  • Blakeley, D.N. (2003) “Listening to the Animals: The Confucian View of Animal Welfare” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy. 30:2. pp.137-157.
  • Brandes, S. (2009) “The meaning of American pet cemetery gravestones” in Ethnology. 48:2. pp.99-118.
  • Chalfen, R. (2003) “Celebrating life after death: the appearance of snapshots in Japanese pet gravesites” in Visual Studies. 18:2. pp.144-156.
  • Davis, H., Irwin, P., Richardson, M. and O’Brien-Malone, A. (2003) “When a pet dies: Religious issues, euthanasia and strategies for coping with bereavement” in Anthrozoos. 16:1. pp.57-74.
  • Davis, J. (2016). From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters : Representing the Accused as Alien Other. In The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America (pp. 1–42). Oxford Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof
  • Dugnoille, J. (2018). To eat or not to eat companion dogs: symbolic value of dog meat and human–dog companionship in contemporary South Korea. Food, Culture and Society, 21(2), 214–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1429075 
  • Dugnoille, J. (2019) “‘I heard a dog cry’: More-than-human interrelatedness, ethnicity and zootherapy in South Korean civil society discourse about dog meat consumption” in Ethnography. 20:1. pp.68-87.
  • Fuseini, A., Knowles, T. G., Hadley, P. J., & Wotton, S. B. (2016). Halal stunning and slaughter: Criteria for the assessment of dead animals. Meat Science, 119(2016), 132–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2016.04.033
  • Fuseini, A., Wotton, S. B., Hadley, P. J., & Knowles, T. G. (2017). The perception and acceptability of pre-slaughter and post-slaughter stunning for Halal production: The views of UK Islamic scholars and Halal consumers. Meat Science, 123, 143–150.
  • Gibson, T. J., Dadios, N., & Gregory, N. G. (2015). Effect of neck cut position on time to collapse in halal slaughtered cattle without stunning. Meat Science, 110, 310–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.03.026
  • Grandin, T. (2013). Making Slaughterhouses More Humane for Cattle, Pigs, and Sheep. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 1, 491–512.
  • Gross, A. (2012). Jewish Animal Ethics. In J. K. Crane & E. N. Dorff (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality2 (pp. 1–16). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Howell, P. (2002) “A Place for the Animal Dead: Pets, Pet Cemeteries and Animal Ethics in Late Victorian Britain” in Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography. 5:1. pp.5-22.
  • Hurn, S. (2017) Animals as Producers, Consumers and Consumed: The Complexities of Trans-Species Sustenance in a Multi-Faith Community. Ethnos, 82:2, 213-231.
  • Hurn, S. (2018) “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” in Linzey, A. and Linzey, C. (eds.) Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics. London: Routledge.
  • Johnson, L. (2015) “The Religion of Ethical Veganism” in Journal of Animal Ethics. 5:1. pp.31-68.
  • Korom, F.J. (2000) “Holy Cow! The Apotheosis of Zebu, or Why the Cow is Sacred in Hinduism” in Asian Folklore Studies. 59:2. pp.181-203.
  • Levine, H. (2011). New Zealand’s ban on kosher slaughtering. Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology. 50(3), 209–222.
  • Lewis, M. (2010). The Regulation of Kosher Slaughter in the United States: How to Supplement Religious Law So as to Ensure the Humane Treatment of Animals. Animal Law, 16(2), 259–286. https://doi.org/10.3868/s050-004-015-0003-8
  • McKinnon, A. M. 2002 ‘Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the ‘Essence’ of Religion’, in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 14. 1, pp. 61-83.
  • Meyers, B. (2002) “Disenfranchised grief and the loss of an animal companion” in Doka, K.J. (ed.) Disenfranchised grief: new directions, challenges, and strategies for practice. Champaign, IL: Research Press.
  • Nakyinsige, K., Che Man, Y. B., Aghwan, Z. A., Zulkifli, I., Goh, Y. M., Abu Bakar, F., … Sazili, A. Q. (2013). Stunning and animal welfare from Islamic and scientific perspectives. Meat Science, 95(2), 352–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2013.04.006
  • Oh, M., & Jackson, J. (2011). Animal rights vs. cultural rights: Exploring the dog meat debate in South Korea from a world polity perspective. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 32(1), 31–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2010.491272
  • Parish, H. 2019. “Paltry Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasels”: Witches, Familiars, and Human-Animal Interactions in the English Witch Trials. Religions 10(2):134 · February.
  • Preece, R. (2003) “Darwinism, Christianity, and the Great Vivisection Debate” in Journal of the History of Ideas. 64:3. pp.399-419.
  • Rahman, S. A. (2017). Religion and Animal Welfare—An Islamic Perspective. Animals, 7(12), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7020011
  • Salisbury, J.E. 2014. Do Animals Go to Heaven? Medieval Philosophers Contemplate Heavenly Human Exceptionalism. Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts, 1(1): 79-85
  • Sax, B. 2009. The magic of animals: English witch trials in the perspective of folklore. Anthrozoos, 22(4): 317-332.
  • Schwabe, C. W. 1994, Animals in the Ancient World. Manning, A. & Serpell, J. (ed.) Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives. London: Routledge.
  • Vallely, A. (2018) “Vulnerability, Transcendence, and the Body: Exploring the Human/Nonhuman Animal Divide Within Jainism” in Society & Animals. 26. pp.1-17.
  • Veldkamp, E. (2009) “The emergence of ‘pets as family’ and the socio-historical development of pet funerals in Japan” in Anthrozoos. 22:4. pp.333-346

 

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