Other Creations

Christopher Manes

ISBN 10: 0385483651 / ISBN 13: 9780385483650

Published by Doubleday, 1997

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0385483651I2N00

Synopsis:

Explores the role played by animals in humanity's quest for metaphysical meaning and shows how animals are integral to religious and spiritual life

From the Inside Flap: ard, despite its name, is unwelcome in church. Any dog, cat, sheep, bovine, terrapin, or bird clearly faces this same prohibition. Modern religion seems to be for humans only, and the absence of animals in our places of worship is taken for granted. It is as if we have built glorious temples to zoophobia, showing that we prefer to worship not in the richness of creation, but rather in what Yeats called the "artifice of eternity," the purely human spaces of our own making.<br><br><br><br>Or do we? What would human spirituality be without animals? The Bible portrays Satan as a snake, Jesus as the lamb of God, the Holy Spirit as a dove. Cathedrals team with stone birds, stags, and other animal images. We express our moral ideas through animal stories, whether the Buddhist Jataka, Aesop's fables, or Orwell's <i>Animal Farm</i>. At the prehistoric heart of humanity's attempts to articulate spiritual sentiments, we find the caves of Lascaux and images not of white-robed deities,

Bibliographic Details

Title: Other Creations
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket