The question of the animal and religion : theoretical stakes, practical implications / Aaron Gross.
Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have a...
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Table of Contents:
- Ethical tropes in American kosher certification
- The event and response
- The absent presence : animals in the history of the study of religion
- After the subject : hunter-gatherers and the reimagination of religion
- Disavowal, war, sacrifice : Jacques Derrida and the reimagination of religion
- Sacrificing animals and being a mensch : dominion, reverence, and the meaning of modern meat.