Animal Rites:
Liturgies of Animal Care

AUTHOR:
Andrew Linzey
Email: Andrewlinzey@aol.com

PUBLISHER:
SCM Press
9-17 St Albans Place,
London N1 0NX, England
Email: scmpress@btinternet.com
Fax: 011-44-1-171 359 0049 (faxing from U.S.A)
Fax: 0171 359 0049 (faxing from England)

ISBN #:
0-334-02760-8

RETAIL PRICE:
 £9.95 England
approx. $16.50 U.S.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Christians believe that the Logos is the source of life, yet Christian
worship remains unashamedly humanocentric.  The world of creation, and
animals in particular, is almost invisible in our worship.  The churches
currently do not have the liturgical means of celebrating the life of
animals, giving thanks for their companionship, praying for the relief of
their suffering, or marking their death.

The new book provides ten new liturgies which are animal-friendly and
animal-inclusive.  They include services of celebration for animal
companionship, services for animal welfare, healing liturgies, new
eucharistic prayers 'for the whole creation,' and animal burial services. 
Underlying all these new forms is a serious theological purpose: to help us
to draw deeper into the mystery of God's work in creation and to affirm other
sentient beings as co-creatures with us.

Andrew Linzey writes: 'Already hundreds of parishes hold animal blessing
services every year.  These provide an opportunity for celebration, care, and
preaching on the theme of Christian responsibility for creation.  These new
liturgies take this process one step further and offer an imaginative attempt
to integrate concern for all God's creation into daily liturgy.'

"The commentary, thoughts and prayers on this issue of animal care are a very
necessary provision to help clergy and ministers to understand and appreciate
the theme of Christianity responsibility for creation."
~ The Most Revd Alwyn Rice Jones, Archbishop of Wales.

"Andrew Linzey is the greatest living writer on theology and animals".
~ Bishop John Austin Baker

The US edition of this book will be published by The Pilgrim Press in the
Fall.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey is a member of the Faculty of Theology in
the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall,
Oxford. He was recently awarded a DD (Doctor of Divinity) degree by the
Archbishop of Canterbury in recognition of his "unique massive pioneering
work" on the "rights and welfare of God's sentient creatures."