Eating and Believing Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1 Developments in Biblical and Historical Theology 15 1 Food and Diet in the Priestly Material of the Pentateuch 17 Nathan MacDonald 2 Mosaic Food Rules in Celtic Spirituality in Ireland 31 David Grumett 3 Biblical Vegetarianism? A Critical and Constructive Assessment 44 David G. Horrell 4 Angels, Beasts, Machines and Men: Configuring the Human and Nonhuman in Judaeo-Christian Tradition 60 David Clough Part 2 Perspectives from Antiquity 5 Vegetarianism, Heresy, and Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity Teresa M. Shaw 6 `The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?`: The Ethics of Vegetarianism in the Writings of Plutarch Michael Beer 7 Hoi polloi: Spiritual Choices for the Many and the Few John Wilkins Part 3 Faith at the Origins of Modern Vegetarianism 8 `Ours is the Food that Eden Knew`: Themes in the Theology and Practice of Modern Christian Vegetarians Samantha Jane Calvert 9 A Lutheranism of the Table`: Religion and the Victorian Vegetarians James R. T. E. Gregory Part 4 The Theory of Vegetarianism 10 The Argument from Marginal Cases: A Philosophical and Theological Defense Daniel Dombrowski 11 Seeing and Believing: Gender and Species Hierarchy in Contemporary Cultures of Animal Food Erika Cudworth 12 Seeing, Choosing and Eating: Theology and the Feminist-Vegetarian Debate Rachel Muers 13 Structure and Agency in the Antislavery and Animal Liberation Movements Nigel Pleasants Part 5 Theological Views on Current Food Debates 14 Symbol, Community and Vegetarianism David Brown 15 Eucharistic Eating, and Why Many Early Christians Preferred Fish Michael S. Northcott 16 Protological and Eschatological Vegetarianism Christopher Southgate