Dominion, Stewardship and Reconciliation in the Accounts of Ordinary People Eating Animals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3499559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Sofia Salonen (0000-0002-6899-7498, Tampere University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 669 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10120669 |
| OpenAlex | W2994728605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
Despite the growing popularity of vegetarian foods and diets, the vast majority of people in North America and other parts of the affluent world still eat meat. This article explores what ordinary people think about eating animals and how they navigate the ethical questions inherent in that praxis. Drawing from interviews with 24 people living in Ottawa, Canada, the study shows how the concepts of dominion, stewardship and reconciliation manifest in the everyday lives of ordinary people as models for human relations with nonhuman others and the environment. These ideas resonate in the lives of ordinary people, both religious and nonreligious, and entwine as people try to make sense of how to live with the fact that their everyday food consumption causes suffering and harm. This study shows that in the context of everyday life, dominion, stewardship and reconciliation are not alternative views, but connected to each other, and serve different purposes. The study highlights a need for analyses that constitute practical ways to renew the broken relationships within creation and which incorporate nonreligious people into the scope of analyses that focus on the relationships between humans and nonhuman creation
Dominion · Environmental ethics · Environmental stewardship · Everyday life · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Praxis · Sociology · Spirituality · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
Consumption, Food and Taste
Don’t Mind Meat? The Denial of Mind to Animals Used for Human Consumption
Meat consumption, health, and the environment
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes
Win-Win Ecology
Why Things Matter to People
The Secret World of Doing Nothing
Blaming the consumer – once again
Maintaining Meat
Completing the Circuit
Should we stop meating like this? Reducing meat consumption through substitution
Rationalizing meat consumption. The 4Ns
About Looking
The Sexual Politics of Meat
Animals and Sociology
Secular or nonreligious? Investigating and interpreting generic 'not religious' categories and populations
Killing Animals
Living and Dealing with Food in an Affluent Society-A Case for the Study of Lived (Non)Religion
Politics of Nature
Religion, aesthetics and moral ontology
Place, Ethics, and Everyday Eating
The Rise of 'No Religion
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |