Animals, Empathy, andRaẖamimin the Study of Religion
A Case Study of Jewish Opposition to Hunting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5140643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron S Gro (0009-0007-5373-7881, University of San Diego, corresponding author), Aaron S Gross (University of San Diego, California, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 511-535 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429817732031 |
| OpenAlex | W2782594300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 and sympathy. In particular, this "redescription" will analyze the rabbinic opposition to hunting in terms of more basic "building blocks" of religion, specifically empathy and sympathy as defined by the life sciences. I conclude that the most complete way to understand compassion-based rabbinic opposition to hunting is as, simultaneously, a society-forming performance, a symbolic statement about human attitudes towards life, and-the focus of the present essay-a vehicle for responding to the "building block" capacities for empathy and sympathy. A concluding section considers the implications of this case study for religious studies, arguing for the value of considering animals as participants in religious ritual
Aesthetics · Compassion · Empathy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sympathy · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Halal products and consumer behavior · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Homo necans
Creation of the Sacred
Leviticus 1–16
«Eating Well,» or the Calculation of the Subject
“He who sits in the heavens laughs”
Religious Experience Reconsidered
No Field Is an Island
Brief communication
Meat Is Good to Taboo
The Perception of the Environment
Seething a Kid in Its Mother's Milk
Religion in Human Evolution
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |