Animal ethics and Hinduism's milking, mothering legends: analysing Krishna the butter thief and the Ocean of Milk

The Hindu ethic of cow protectionism is legislatively interpreted in many Indian states through the criminalisation of cow slaughter, and beef consumption, obscuring dairying's direct role in the butchery of spent female and unproductive male bovines. Cow milk, however, is celebrated as sacred...

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Main Author: Narayanan, Yamini (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2018]
In: Sophia
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-149
RelBib Classification:BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
FD Contextual theology
KBM Asia
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Krishna
B Feminist
B Cow protection
B Dairy
B Hinduism
B Motherhood
B Mother cow
B Vegan
B India
B Milk
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