TITLE:
Religious Vegetarianism:
>From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama

AUTHOR:
Kerry S. Walters
Email: kwalters@gettysburg.edu
 & Lisa Portmess

PUBLISHER:
State University of New York Press
State University Plaza,
Albany, New York 12246
Tel: 518-472-5000
Fax: 518-472-5038
Email: orderbook@cupserv.org
Website: http://www.sunypress.edu

ISBN #:
0-7914-4972-6

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
An anthology of writings on vegetarianism from a wide range of religious
traditions.

Stretching back more than two thousand years and spanning diverse traditions,
religious vegetarianism has an ancient and rich history. In this book, Kerry
S. Walters and Lisa Portmess gather writings that reflect devotional as well
as more analytical responses to age-old questions of animal suffering,
dietary practice, and human responsibility. These include writings from
ancient Orphic and Pythagorean authors, writings that span centuries of
Indian and Buddhist thought, and writings from the Judaic, Christian, and
Islamic traditions. Interesting both to those well-versed in the literature
of vegetarianism as well as to others encountering it for the first time, are
tensions within traditions over the use of animals for food--whether such use
is consonant with fundamental values of the faith, whether religious law or
tradition requires vegetarian practice, and what place animals are thought to
hold in the order of nature.

Classic and contemporary contributors include Carol J. Adams, the Dalai Lama,
Gandhi, Hesiod, Kabir, Roberta Kalechofsky, Abraham Isaac Kook, Andrew
Linzey, Ovid, and Tom Regan, among others.

"This wonderful book provides the cornerstone, the religious basis for a diet
rich in compassion and a credit to faith." -- Ingrid Newkirk, President,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

"Religious Vegetarianism is a stimulating collection of diverse and often
out-of-the-way texts. The contrast between Eastern and Western religious
texts on vegetarianism should prove to be especially thought-provoking for
adherents of Western religions."
 -- Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kerry S. Walters is Professor of Philosophy and Lisa Portmess is Chair of the
Philosophy Department at Gettysburg College. They are coeditors of the
companion volume Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer, also
published by SUNY Press.

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