Spirit unleashed : reimagining human-animal relations /

Spirit unleashed : reimagining human-animal relations /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Benvenuti, Anne. author.
Imprint:	Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2014] ©2014
Description:	xvi, 203 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Human-animal relationships. Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Human-animal relationships.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10111561

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Varying Form of Title:	Reimagining human-animal relations
ISBN:	9781625641878 1625641877
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203).
Summary:	In Spirit Unleashed, Anne Benvenuti uses analysis of real encounters with wild animals to take us on an intellectual tour of our thinking about animals by way of biological sciences, scientific psychology, philosophy, and theology to show that we have been wrong in our understanding of ourselves amongst other animals. The good news is that we can correct our course and make ourselves happier in the process. Drawing us into encounters with a desert rattlesnake, an offended bonobo, an injured fawn, a curious whale, a determined woodpecker, and others, she gives us a glimpse of their souls. Benvenuti strongly makes the case that to change the way we think about animals-and our way of relating to them-holds the possibility of changing all life on Earth for the better. -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Great Western Divide, Multiplied
2. Other Nations: Thinking in terms of Multiplicity of Being
3. What a Piece of Work is Man, the Thinking Thing
4. Lost in Thought: Human Psychology
5. The Tune Without the Words
6. Spirit Unleashed: Becoming Homo Sapiens
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