Food, Farming and Religion: Emerging Ethical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138557994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str.

Gretel Van Wieren

Opis

This book examines how religious traditions and communities in the United States and beyond are responding to critical environmental ethical issues posed by the global food system. In particular, it looks at the responses that have developed within Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, and shows how they relate to arguments and approaches in the broader study of food and environmental ethics. In doing so, Gretel Van Wieren proposes a model for conceptualizing agricultural and food practices in sacred terms.

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking Ethically About Food  1. Down on the Farm: The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Agriculture?  2. Soil: Sacred and Profaned  3. Plants: The Power and Miracle of Seeds  4. Animals: Humane, Sustainable, Spiritual Meat?  5. Water: Precious, Polluted, Purified  6. Climate: Religion and Food for a Hot Planet  7. The New Sacred Farm

O autorze

Gretel Van Wieren is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.