Teaching Animals and Religion.
Although animals have served as subjects and objects of religion since the Paleolithic, they are often omitted from standard religious studies courses. In this article, I discuss some best practices for introducing students to the study of animals and religion. After outlining some of the benefits o...
| Published in: | Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 48 - 71 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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