Posts Tagged ‘animals’

January 3rd, 2012

CFP: “Pray, Kill, Eat”

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The Religion Graduate Students’ Association of Columbia University is accepting proposals for its eighth annual conference, Pray, Kill, Eat: Relating to Animals across Religious Traditions. The conference will take place Friday, April 20, 2012, at Columbia, with keynote speakers Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago) and Kimberly C. Patton (Harvard Divinity School). Details below.

February 3rd, 2010

Being with Animals

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Anthropologist Barbara J. King, whose previous book Evolving God explored the roots of religion among non-human animals, has a new book, called Being with Animals, about how and why humans relate to other species.

January 25th, 2010

The souls of animals

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The question of the week at The Guardian’s Belief page is, “Do Animals Have Souls?” Musab Bora offers a Muslim perspective.