Religious vegetarianism : from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama / edited by Kerry S. Walters , Lisa Portmess.
Contributor(s): Walters, Kerry S | Portmess, Lisa
Material type: TextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xi, 203 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0791449726 (pb : alk. paper); 0791449718 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Vegetarianism -- Religious aspects | Spiritual lifeDDC classification: 291.5/693 LOC classification: BL65.V44 | R45 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL65.V44 R45 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902186531 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Orphic-Pythagorean tradition. -- The five ages / Hesiod -- The blessed life / Porphyry -- Pythagoras of Samos : spirit never perishes / Ovid -- I have been a leaping journeying fish / Empedocles -- Apollonius of Tyana : sweet offerings / Philostratus -- The Indian tradition. -- The sin of killing / The Laws of Manu -- To harm no living being / Ākarāṅga Sūtra -- Human flesh and beast flesh are the same / Kabīr -- Oneness includes all animals / Swami Vivekānanda -- Diet and non-violence / Mohandas Gandhi -- Thou shalt not kill / A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda -- The Buddhist tradition. -- Prohibition against killing / Śuraṅgama Sūtra -- Cherish each being like an only child / Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra -- On animals I have conferred many boons / Aśoka -- All life is linked / Sir Edwin Arnold --
Releasing life / Chu-Hung -- Meat eating and the first precept / Philip Kapleau -- Compassion for all sentient beings / The Dalai Lama -- The Judaic tradition. -- Kashrut : a provegetarian bias in Torah / Roberta Kalechofsky -- The life of his beast / Everett E. Gendler -- The religious justification for vegetarianism / Joseph Rosenfeld -- A firm and joyous voice of life / Abraham Isaac Kook -- The Christian tradition. -- Vegetarianism as a Biblical ideal / Andrew Linzey -- In the fullness of God's creation / Tom Regan -- Vegetarianism and religion / Francis X. Clooney -- Feeding on grace : institutional violence, Christianity, and vegetarianism / Carol J. Adams -- The Islamic tradition. -- The men who ate the elephant / Rūmī -- Qurbān and the hunter learns compassion from the fawn / His Holiness M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen -- They are communities like you / Al-Ḥāfiẓ B.A. Masri.