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Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities

Book by Rod Preece; University of British Columbia Press, 1999

Subjects:

Animal Welfare--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Animals And Civilization, Philosophy Of Nature

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

the Solomon Islands sacrifice pigs in homage to their...ancestors and the gods. Cock sacrifice is an everyday occurrence...abandoned their religious animal sacrifices. Indeed, animal sacrifice has been practised for at least 80,000 years. Animal sacrifice might seem to...Thus, in Keepers of the Animals , Vine Deloria, Jr...
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On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals

Book by Stephen H. Webb; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Animal Welfare--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Dogs--Religious Aspects--Christianity

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Gods covenant with the animals could no longer be ignored...relationship between sacrifice and animals, and how can Christians...sacrifice without perpetuating animal sacrifice? Sacrifice is a notion deeply rooted...Although ritualized animal sacrifices have been abandoned by Christianity...
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The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals

Book by Paul Waldau; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Animal Rights--Environmental Aspects, Animal Welfare--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Speciesism--Religious Aspects, Speciesism--Religious Aspects--Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...which suggests that the animals chosen for sacrifice...value of the sacrificed animals remains eminently instrumental, since the sacrifice was not for the victims...evidenced by the use of animal sacrifices for atonement, ritual...precisely why human sacrifice is abhorrent. Sacrifice of other animals raises precisely the...
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Sacrifice in Religious Experience

Book by Albert I. Baumgarten; Brill, 2002

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Sacrifice

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN ANCIENT ZOROASTRIANISM: A RITUAL AND...of the present article are the rites of animal sacrifice in ancient Zoroastrianism, that is to say rituals in which the life of an animal is taken and its meat handled in the history...
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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

Book by Marc Bekoff, Carron A. Meaney; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

Animal Rights--Encyclopedias, Animal Welfare--Encyclopedias

Collections: Entire Library

...where the "naturalistic" animal found in nature is redefined...only research value. The animals death * has meaning only to...Arluke argues that laboratory animal sacrifice involves the stripping away...nonscientific identity of animals so that they can be regarded...

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Journal Articles on: animal sacrifice

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Free Exercise of Religion and Animal Protection: a Comparative Perspective on Ritual Slaughter

Journal article by Claudia E. Haupt; The George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 39, 2007

Subjects:

Animal care, Comparative analysis, Constitutional law, Court decisions, France, Freedom of religion, Germany, Rites & ceremonies, United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...seeking to prevent animal sacrifice hold a reprehension against animal sacrifice that does...secular killings of animals for other uses.314...the adequate care of animals, regulation of conditions...regardless of why an animal is kept, is the logical...for the purpose of sacrifice. The same is true...
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Kabit, Rimbu and Opa: Modalities of Anganen Sacrifice

Journal article by Michael Nihill; Oceania, Vol. 80, 2010

Subjects:

Christianity--Analysis, Sacrifice--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...human interest in animal classification...for the use of animals in rimbu. Before...significance of marsupial sacrifice during the performance...Smiths concept of sacrifice as communion is...to eat the same animals, they eat differentially...portion of an animal. The recipients...involves only one animal in contrast to the sacrifice of a number of animals in rimbit. Gi...
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The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval English Drama

Journal article by Clifford Davidson; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 35, 1999

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Drama, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Human sacrifice--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Isaac (Biblical figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Religious drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...between Gods will, sacrifice, and the death of...of Cain and Abel the sacrifices of the two brothers...would send a substitute sacrifice. The conclusion in which the sacrificial animal is miraculously supplied...is made secure. The sacrifice of the Lamb of God...ram, literally the animal that serves as a substitute...
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"The Blood of Every Beast": Mormonism and the Question of the Animal

Journal article by Bart H. Welling; Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 44, 2011

Subjects:

Animals, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--Mormons, Mormonism, Religious history, Vegetarianism

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...had ended the need for animal sacrifice, but Joseph Smiths...role of violence toward animals in human culture: an...that, in practice, animal sacrifice has never ended, and...Western culture in which animals and animalized humans...
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Sacrifice in Religious Experience

Journal article by I.M. Lewis; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sacrifice in religious experience (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Sacrifice in Religious Experience...the latter consists of animals reserved for ritual...overcoming death (as in animal sacrifice), men ritually...adds that gender and animal sacrifice are often...think. This emphasis on animal sacrifice as an aspect...conceptualization of spirituality in animals, and their relation...

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Magazine Articles on: animal sacrifice

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Burnt Offerings: Sometimes, in the Face of Theatrical Flops and Mishaps, Ogun, the Yoruban God of Creativity and Destruction, Demands a Ritual Animal Sacrifice

Magazine article by Wole Soyinka; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

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Theater--Personal narratives, Theatrical directors--Personal narratives, Theatrical producers and directors--Personal narratives, You Must Set Forth at Dawn (Book)--Excerpts

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...Destruction, Demands a Ritual Animal Sacrifice. by Wole Soyinka In 1994, after...place in Siena for which the frozen animal was an essential stage prop. This...Road, a play about the god Ogun, sacrifice, ritual and a mystic quest, knows...
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The Roar over Animal Rights

Magazine article by Robert R. Burke, Gwendolyn F. Hall; Security Management, Vol. 34, September 1990

Subjects:

Animal Liberation Front, Animal experimentation--Political aspects, Animal models in research--Evaluation, Animal research models--Evaluation, Animal rights movement--Political aspects, Crime, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals--Political activity, Sabotage--International aspects, Security departments--Planning, Terrorism--Prevention

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...she knows contains some animal products. Although she recents that animals died to make this drug...on a drug that depends on animal sacrifice. Her justification is that...fight for the rights of animals. This same woman was quoted...
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The Great Divide: 12 Environmental and Animal Rights Leaders Talk about What Separates Them - and What Can Bring Them Together

Magazine article; E, Vol. 7, January 1996

Subjects:

Animal rights movement--Analysis, Environmentalists--Attitudes

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...fuls of cetaceans. While animal rightists make midnight raids...forests full of biodiversity. Animal lovers split long ago into two camps. One would sacrifice the wholeness of a high desert...and many of the plants and animals that live there to protect...activists who began with "animal rights" issues are gaining...
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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: the Anti-human Values of "animal Rights"

Magazine article by Wesley J. Smith; Human Life Review, Vol. 33, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Activism, Animal rights movement, Demonstrations & protests, Life sciences, Medical treatment, Monkeys & apes, Violence

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...asserts that any use of animals by humans causes suffering...medical research using animals-even seeing-eye...societys acceptance of animal-rights/liberation...was asked if she would sacrifice five thousand rats or...notable by asserting in Animal Liberation that the interests of animals should be given "equal...
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Toward a Native American Theology of Animals: Creek and Cherokee Perspectives

Magazine article by Dave Aftandilian; Cross Currents, Vol. 61, June 2011

Subjects:

Cherokees--Religious aspects, Creeks (Native American people)--Religious aspects, Creeks (Native Americans)--Religious aspects, Human-animal relationships--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...each side willing to sacrifice on behalf of the other...1995, 252-254). Animals are spiritually powerful...Creek and Cherokee animal theology is that animals are spiritually powerful...regeneration of the land and animals (Chaudhuri and Chaudhuri...world by killing an animal for food, she or he...ceremonies that involve sacrifice on behalf of the whole...

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Newspaper Articles on: animal sacrifice

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Club a Seal, Save the Planet; Environmentalists Turn to Animal Sacrifice to Fight Global Warming

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 9, 2011

Subjects:

Air pollution--Environmental aspects, Environmental activists--Environmental aspects, Environmentalists--Environmental aspects, Global warming--Environmental aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Environmentalists Turn to Animal Sacrifice to Fight Global Warming...their cause. Concern for animal rights is now being kicked...order to save the planet, animals must die. Its all part of...explained. It also covers animal emissions avoidance projects...
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We Don't Sacrifice Animals, So Don't Abuse Us

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 22, 2009

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Wicca

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

We Dont Sacrifice Animals, So Dont Abuse Us...tradition. Pagans no longer sacrifice animals and chickens...longer carry out human sacrifice -- a practice which...for millions of human sacrifices, mostly by burning...
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Fury at Sacrifice of 200,000 Animals; WORLD IN BRIEF

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 24, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Fury at Sacrifice of 200,000 Animals; WORLD IN BRIEF. HUNDREDS...today in southern Nepal. Animal welfare activists protested...Gadhimai festival, in which the animals throats are slit with swords...prosperity. Pramada Shah, of the Animals Nepal group, said: "We...
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Pets People: THE REAL-LIFE ANIMAL ANGELS; We All Adore Our Pets but What Sacrifices Would You Make for Them? Lucy Fensome Spent Nine Years Devoting Her Life to One Donkey. Here Are the Incredible Lengths She - and Two Other Readers - Went to for the Love of Animals. AMANDA GOFF Reports

Newspaper article by Amanda Goff; The People (London, England), April 9, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...People: THE REAL-LIFE ANIMAL ANGELS; We All Adore Our Pets but What Sacrifices Would You Make for Them...Went to for the Love of Animals. AMANDA GOFF Reports...summer holidays at an animal shelter in Jerusalem...on, working at the animal sanctuary, but mainly...for the Protection of Animals stepped in, finding...
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I Support Vivisection but Must We Really Kill 4million Animals?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 23, 2009

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Animal experimentation--Personal narratives, Cruelty to animals--Personal narratives, Medical research--Personal narratives, Medicine, Experimental--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Must We Really Kill 4million Animals? Byline: by Dr Danny Penman...medical researchers claim that animal experiments are vital for...diseases. On the other, animal rights extremists say that scientists delight in torturing animals for profit. We want it both...Like most people, I would sacrifice the lives of countless lab...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: animal sacrifice

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Sacrifice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...destruction. The Nature of Sacrifice Sacrifices may be performed on...practice of human sacrifice is rare in recent...the world, and even animal sacrifice has become...enforcement restrictions on animal sacrifice, but in 1993 the...
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SanterÍa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...are led by a priest or priestess, and reincarnation is a main belief. One of its most important rituals involves animal sacrifice, which was ruled a constitutional religious practice in a 1993 Supreme Court decision...
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Voodoo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...that all of nature is controlled by spiritual forces which must be acknowledged and honored through offerings and animal sacrifice; ecstatic trances (a means of communicating with the gods and spirits) and magical practices play an important...
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Brahmo Samaj

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Christian overtones, support for the rights of women, and opposition to such aspects of Hinduism as idolatry and animal sacrifice. Under Roy the organization attained considerable importance in E India until his death in 1833. After a decade...
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Kali

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Divine Mother. Her cult, popular among many lower castes in India, especially in Bengal, frequently includes animal sacrifice. Kali was patroness of the Thugs . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...

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