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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM112: Animals and Religion
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Waldau, Paul, & Patton, Kimberly C. (Eds.). 2006. A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. Columbia University Press (available as an ebook through the library) this is a key text throughout the module.
Allen, Barbara. 2016. Animals in Religion: Devotion Symbol and Ritual, Reaktion Books (available as an ebook through the library). This is also a very useful text for most of the topics in the module.
Kemmerer, Lisa. 2011. Introduction. Animals and World Religions. New York: Oxford University Press (available as an ebook through the library).
Smith, C. 2017, ‘Chapter 1 – What is Religion?’, Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ingold, T. 2002. From Trust to Domination: An Alternative History of Human-Animal Relations. In: Manning, A. and Serpell, J. (eds.) Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives, 1-22. Taylor and Francis.