Religion and Animals
An Ancient Tradition, An Emerging Field
Course at Harvard University
Summer School
The course syllabus is available at the website for the 2010 Summer Term. Go to http://www.summer.harvard.edu/, click on “Search” in the upper right corner, and then enter either “animals” or “religion” and you’ll easily find the course. In addition, you can view a short video that describes the course further at.
A Communion of Subjects:
Animals in Religion, Science, & Ethics
Published in 2006 by Columbia University Press and now available in paperback, this volume is the leading book in the new academic field of religion and animals. The book represents years of work following a groundbreaking conference at Harvard University in May of 1999. The editors are (1) Paul Waldau, long-time co-Chair of the American Academy of Religion's "Animals and Religion Consultation" and Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; and (2) Kimberley Patton, a tenured faculty member at Harvard Divinity School. Both have published many papers on this topic, and each contributed specially written essays to this volume.
The volume can be ordered at http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13642-6/a-communion-of-subjects.
The Specter of Speciesism:
Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals
Published in 2001 by Oxford University Press, this volume addresses (1) early Buddhist and Christian views of nonhuman animals, and (2) basic conceptual issues that arise at the multi-faced and multi-tiered intersections of human and nonhuman worlds.
New and used copies can be ordered at Amazon.com or the Barnes and Noble website.
For an excerpt, go to paulwaldau.com, and visit the page "Publications for downloading."
