1st Edition

Food, Farming and Religion Emerging Ethical Perspectives

By Gretel Van Wieren Copyright 2018
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Although the religious and ethical consideration of food and eating is not a new phenomenon, the debate about food and eating today is distinctly different from most of what has preceded it in the history of Western culture. Yet the field of environmental ethics, especially religious approaches to environmental ethics, has been slow to see food and agriculture as topics worthy of analysis. This... Read more

Introduction: Thinking Ethically About Food  1. Down on the Farm: The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Agriculture?  2. Soil: Sacred and Profaned  3. Plants: The Power and Miracle of Seeds  4. Animals: Humane, Sustainable, Spiritual Meat?  5. Water: Precious, Polluted, Purified  6. Climate: Religion and Food for a Hot Planet  7. The New Sacred Farm

Biography

Gretel Van Wieren is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.