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Author | : Ingvild Saelid Gilhus |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134169167 |
Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are rich and multilayered, and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus expertly examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals. Including study of: biographies of figures such as Apollonus of Tyana; natural history; the New Testament via Gnostic texts; the church fathers; and from pagan and Christian criticism of animal sacrifice, to the acts of martyrs, the source material and detailed analysis included in this volume make it a veritable feast of information for all classicists.
Author | : Raija Mattila |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3658243880 |
While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.
Author | : Meghan O'Gieblyn |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525562710 |
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Author | : Julia Kindt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-07-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0429754590 |
This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of other ‘magical’ means. Taken together, the individual contributions to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans, but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.
Author | : J. R. Hyland |
Publisher | : Lantern Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781930051157 |
From Genesis to Christ, the Bible testifies to God's love and concern for animals. The same self-centeredness that led to the violence and abuse that has marked human relations also caused the abuse and exploitation of animals. The Bible, argues the author, calls upon human beings to stop their violence and abuse of each other and all other creatures. It promises that when they do, the sorrow and the suffering that marks life on Earth will give way to the joy and peace that God ordained at the creation of the world. In these compelling essays, Rev. J. R. Hyland explores the Old and New Testament and reveals the prophetic voices that called for compassion over killing, and humane concern for all of God's creation.
Author | : Juhana Toivanen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438467 |
In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Author | : Allen Anderson |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 9781577312468 |
Do our relationships with animals bring us closer to God?
Author | : Gerald Carson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Examines the relationship of man and animals through the centuries, revealing the steps taken toward the protection of furred and feathered creatures in the United States.
Author | : Susan Bulanda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780975961988 |
Here are answers to these questions and more. Susan Bulanda draws on years of professional experience, scientific reading, and theological study to present a biblical view of animals: how they behave, how God uses them to accomplish his purposes, and how they fit into the rest of creation.
Author | : John Heath |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139443917 |
When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for authoritative speech which was held to separate humans from other animals, gods from humans, men from women, Greeks from non-Greeks, citizens from slaves, and the mundane from the heroic. John Heath illustrates how Homer's epics trace the development of immature young men into adults managing speech in entirely human ways and how in Aeschylus' Oresteia only human speech can disentangle man, beast, and god. Plato's Dialogues are shown to reveal the consequences of Socratically imposed silence. With its examination of the Greek focus on speech, animalization, and status, this book offers new readings of key texts and provides significant insights into the Greek approach to understanding our world.