Sacred Rituals and Humane Death

Religion in the Ethics and Politics of Modern Meat

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death critically analyzes the civilizing nature of the underlying fundamental concept of “humaneness” in contemporary discourses around modern meat and animal ethics. As religious methods of animal slaughter, such as the halal method in Islam, as well as the practice of religious animal sacrifice, are sometimes categorized as barbaric in recent debates, the civilizing narrative of progress leads supposedly to more humane adaptation of methods and practices of animal curation and slaughter. This volume argues that the shift toward modern meat does not constitute a shift toward less pain and suffering as purported by supporters of contemporary methods, particularly mass agriculture. Rather, it is a shift in what is considered as acceptable versus unacceptable pain and suffering. In this work, the author analyzes the concealment and distancing that characterize modern meat production, uncovering the “acceptable” pain and suffering involved in these procedures heralded as ”progress” and advocating for a retrieval of earlier, tradition-bound practices rooted in religious, cultural, and ethical respect of animals and their important and sacred roles in sacrifice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-10
Mått:161 x 226 x 14 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:108
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498541398

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Magfirah Dahlan is full-time faculty in religious studies, philosophy, and political science at Craven Community College. She has published on religious ethics, animal ethics, Islamic food justice, identity politics, and multiculturalism.

Recensioner i media

Magfirah Dahlan’s Sacred Rituals and Humane Death joins the debate over the question of killing for food in Islam, but instead of repeating the rehearsed question of whether it is possible to build a case for vegetarianism on Islamic grounds, she analyzes and critically assesses the very processes that have led to this question. Paradoxically, these processes—she demonstrates—are rooted in the same civilizing narrative that gave rise to the postdomestic era, with its concealment of animal pain and distancing between humans and other animals. Approaching the subject from this fresh angle, Dahlan’s eye-opening insights enrich the field of animal ethics in Islam and beyond.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1 Humane Death: the Making of Modern MeatChapter 2 Halal Meat: from Permissible Food to Ritual SlaughterChapter 3 Ethical Vegetarianism: Civilizing ReligionChapter 4 Un-Civilizing Meat: Modern Human-Animal RelationshipChapter 5 The Act of Witnessing: Proximity in Food SystemChapter 6 Animal Sacrifice: Meat and Food JusticeConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author