The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals

by Paul Waldau

Book Overview

This new study looks at how non-human animals have been viewed in the Buddhist and Christian religious traditions. The concept of speciesism, coined in 1970 as an analogy to racism and discussed almost exclusively within philosophical circles, is used to explore very basic questions about which animals, human or otherwise, were significant to early Buddhists and Christians. Drawing on scriptures and interpretive traditions in Christianity and Buddhism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145712
• ISBN13: 9780195145717
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"