Animal Ethics and the Nonconformist Conscience

• Main Author: Sampson, Philip J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Ethics.; Animal welfare.; Religion and sociology.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Religion and Society.

This book explores the religious language of Nonconformity used in ethical debates about animals. It uncovers a rich stream of innovative discourse from the Puritans of the seventeenth century, through the Clapham Sect and Evangelical Revival, to the nineteenth century debates about vivisection. Thi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Speaking of animals
• Chapter 2 - Animals, language and ethics
• Chapter 3 - A modern story of animal advocacy
• Chapter 4 - Innovation and religious discourses
• Chapter 5 - Creation: what on earth are animals for?
• Chapter 6 - Fall: animal suffering and human agency.-Chapter 7 - Redemption: hope, love and restoration
• Chapter 8 - A persistent language
• Chapter 9 - Nonconformist bricolage
• Index.