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100	1		_aGross, Aaron.
245	1	4	_aThe Question of the Animal and Religion : _bTheoretical Stakes, Practical Implications.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a1 online resource (305 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification -- 2. The Event and Response -- 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion -- 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion -- 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion -- 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThrough an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from other animals, but Gross rejects this paradigm, instead matching religion more closely with the life sciences to better theorize human nature. Gross begins with a detailed account of the scandals at Agriprocessors and their significance for the American and international Jewish community. He argues that without a proper theorization of “animals and religion," we cannot fully understand religiously and ethically motivated diets and how and why the events at Agriprocessors took place. Subsequent chapters recognize the significance of animals to the study of religion in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Jacques Derrida and the value of indigenous peoples' understanding of animals to the study of religion in our daily lives. Gross concludes by extending the Agribusiness scandal to the activities at slaughterhouses of all kinds, calling attention to the religiosity informing the regulation of “secular" slaughterhouses and its implications for our relationship with and self-imagination through animals.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAnimals -- Religious aspects.
650		0	_aMeat animals -- Religious aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aGross, Aaron _tThe Question of the Animal and Religion _dNew York : Columbia University Press,c2014 _z9780231167512
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