Issues in Ethics and Animal Rights

Contents Preface Profile of contributors Without animals life is not worth livingFreya Mathews I Ethical and philosophical perspectives 1 Increasing our compassion footprint The Animals? ManifestoMarc Bekoff 2 Intrinsic value and transgenic animalsRobin Atfield 3 Philosophizing as if animals themselves mattered more a zoontological review of philosophy and animal lifeRalph R Acampora 4 The moral status of sentient and nonsentient creaturesRebekah Humphreys 5 Animal rites rights and whites traditional African beliefs and animals slaughter in South AfricaSandra Swart 6 Animals and ethical responsibilities a utilitarian perspectiveKaterina Prudchenko 7 Vegetarianism and veganism vehicles to maintain ahimsa and reconstruct Jain identity among young Jains in the UK and USABindi Shah 8 Eco-philosophy of St Francis of AssisiAJ Sebastian SDB 9 Animal rights interests and moral standing a critical examination of dialogue between began and freyRebekah Humphrey 10 Reverence for life an ethical evaluation of human animal relationshipManish A Vyas II Religious outlooks 11 Chains and circles hierarchy and the status of animalsSteve Russell and Sara M Walsh 12 Karl Barth and Love for All Creatures as a quintessential aspects of Christian spiritualityWilliam Greenway 13 Cows and Dharmic ecology perspectives from the Hindu Bovine ActivistsPankaj Jain 14 Compassion for all beings ethical treatment of animals in the Indic religionsJeffery D Long 15 Jainism?s ethics of non-harmLawrence A Babb 16 The Qur?an Shari?a Law and the exclusion of nonhuman animalsRod Bennison 17 Animals in Buddhism in defence of hierarchical evaluationColette Sciberras III Literary and media positions 18 The problem with fern leaving the childhood world of animals for heteronormative adulthoodAlyce Miller 19 In ancestral times when birds were still humans kinship and dialogue in Amerindian ornithological narratives in Southern South AmericaRicardo Rozzi 20 Animal human nexus in Gerald Durrell?s fictional writingsDhinshna P 21 Subject to sacrifice the repression of the Animal in JM Coetzee?s DusklandsBrian Deyo 22 No higher life ethical theory and practice in JM Coetzee?s DisgraceSally Borrell 23 Ethical inand poetry them and usIndira Nityanandam 24 A study of endangered species and The Hungry TideAnju Bala Agrawal 25 A pragmatist philosophical consideration of the pig in literature song and film with special emphasis on the ones that got awayLisa Heldke 26 Elephant images and representations narratives and the production of cultural signifiers in KeralaSyam Sudhakar 27 Morality ethics and animal rights in romantic poetry and Victorian thoughtJohansen Quijano-Cruz 28 Issues of survival in life of Pi and A tiger for MalgudiSSVN Sakuntala 29 The Bengal Tiger The Irrawaddy Dolphin an humble fisherman and lone researcher a tale of compassion connection and forebodingDenise Russell 30 The poetry of inclusion Tukaram animals and the cosmic oneThomas Crowley 31 Representational ethics dog narrators and focalisers in Patrice Nganang?s dog days an animal chronicle and Paul Auster?s TimbuktuWendy Woodword 32 Modern media and animal rights how training your dragons and pokemon influence contemporary animal ethicsJohansen Quijan-Cruz 33 Dogs of istanbulAiswarya S Babu 34 The silent listener in Anton Chekhov?s HeartacheD Venkataramanan 35 Beauty spirit and power divine animals in the writings of Louise ErdrichK Subapriya 36 Myth unmasked eating your relatives with a clear conscienceLisa Kemmerer IndexThis anthology has the potential to become a highly valuable source for the general reading audience as well as the many postgraduate and research scholars at the forefront of postcolonial and multidisciplinary studies It will serve as a reference guide for the scholars interested in the branches of postcolonial studies ethics and animal rights across the world It brings together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the literary philosophical and religious issues that underlie the c.…