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Cattle Grazing On A Hillside
Farming in Arkansas
Image of a herd of cattle grazing on a hillside on a sunny day.
Religion And Animals: A Changing Scene, Paul Waldau
Religion And Animals: A Changing Scene, Paul Waldau
State of the Animals 2003
For protections to evolve to include nonhuman species, religions— through their leaders, their institutions, and above all their believers— must take seriously the important role that they have played, and certainly will continue to play, in humans’ engagement with the lives beyond our species line. Religions have such a central role in the transmission of basic images and values regarding living beings that, without their help, the problem of the species line will not be solved in this century. A central question for this century is whether influential religious institutions will continue to convey images that radically and absolutely dismiss …
Epiphanies At The Supermarket: An Interview With Brigitte Kronauer , Jutta Ittner
Epiphanies At The Supermarket: An Interview With Brigitte Kronauer , Jutta Ittner
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Brigitte Kronauer has been called "the greatest German [female] fiction writer of our time" (Marcel Reich-Ranicki). Her stories, novels, and criticism have established her as a uniquely sophisticated literary voice and won her many literary prizes. Kronauer's trademarks are her laser-sharp vision, her luminous prose, and the intricate structures of her uncannily realistic literary universes. Finding the mystical in the mundane and exposing human foibles with subtle irony, Kronauer creates, in the words of one critic, epiphanies at the supermarket. Beneath its everyday surface her fiction deals with the eternal human questions of life, death, and love. At a still …