Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions

by Clay Lancaster and Rynn Berry

Book Overview

Combines interviews with vegetarian spiritual leaders from each of the world's religions, essays on vegetarianism and selection of vegetarian recipes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962616923
• ISBN13: 9780962616921
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Pythagorean Books
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A 'cookbook' for the inquisitive mind!

This book is a remarkable insight into dietary religious morals and philosophy.....it's a 'cookbook' for the inquisitive mind. If you are a person of faith, this book gives an easy to understand history of how the history of your particular religious faith has been impacted by diet and moral choices of eating habits throughout the ages. Every person of faith restles with matters of principles and moral philosophy....that's why this book is important for you. If you are not a person of faith but you are intrigued by the issue of a vegan / vegetarian diet and an ethically compassionate life and how this may effect others around you who do follow a religious lifestyle / belief, then it is a very worthwhile book to read and get familiar with. I constantly use this book as a resource in my writing.

Really Good!!!

How much do you know about world religions and veganism? How much do you know about your OWN religion and love of animals? This book will educate you quickly about most religions and the basic tenet of all which is to treat all life as sacred. Quite an interesting read...

A New Look at History

Rynn Berry's Food for the Gods does a remarkable job of tracing the vegetarian link in the major religions of Hindiusm, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam, and Catholicism, but also to the relatively small but intriguing non-violent religions of India's Jainism and the British Order of the Cross. The history of religion will never look the same after reading this book.