Religion, Animals, and Racialization: Articulating Islamophobia through Animal Ethics in The Netherlands

In 2008, the Dutch Party for the Animals submitted a proposal to ban religious slaughter without prior stunning. The proposal was widely supported in the Lower House but finally rejected in the Upper House in 2012, mainly on the grounds of religious freedom. Academia was keen to study the polemic, b...

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Main Author: Jung, Mariska (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10
Further subjects:B Racialization
B Religion
B Islamophobia
B animal advocacy politics
B animal ethics
B ritual slaughter
B the Muslim Question
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