Animals, Religion, and Ethics.

Catalog description

This course examines how religious traditions have affected the ways in which we see, speak about, and treat non-human animals. Religions have both reinforced ideas of human superiority over non-human animals and called into question ideas of human dominion and exceptionalism. Pedagogically, the course will be interdisciplinary and seek to expose students to a wide variety of topics related to the issue of religion and animals.