Animals, Empathy, and Ra?amim in the Study of Religion: A Case Study of Jewish Opposition to Hunting

Both classical and contemporary Jewish texts, surveyed here, articulate a religious opposition to hunting for sport. This essay interprets compassion-based rabbinic opposition to hunting as reflecting a pragmatic concern with cultivating a regard and even a reverence for the capacities of empathy an...

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Main Author: Gross, Aaron S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2017]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 511-535
Further subjects:B pitié
B Hunting
B Sympathy
B Empathy
B Empathie
B ritualchasse
B Rituel
B Animal
B Judaism
B Compassion
B souffrance
B Suffering
B Judaïsme
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