Eating and believing: interdisciplinary perspectives on vegetarianism and theology edited by David Grumett and Rachel Muers [Text]

Machine derived contents note: Part 1 Developments in Biblical and Historical Theology 15 1 Food and Diet in the Priestly Material of the Pentateuch 17 Nathan MacDonald 2 Mosaic Food Rules in Celtic Spirituality in Ireland 31 David Grumett 3 Biblical Vegetarianism? A Critical and Constructive Assessment 44 David G. Horrell 4 Angels, Beasts, Machines and Men: Configuring the Human and Nonhuman in Judaeo-Christian Tradition 60 David Clough Part 2 Perspectives from Antiquity 73 5 Vegetarianism, Heresy, and Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity 75 Teresa M. Shaw 6 'The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?': The Ethics of Vegetarianism in the Writings of Plutarch 96 Michael Beer 7 Hoi polloi: Spiritual Choices for the Many and the Few 110 John Wilkins Part 3 Faith at the Origins of Modern Vegetarianism 121 8 'Ours is the Food that Eden Knew': Themes in the Theology and Practice of Modern Christian Vegetarians 123 Samantha Jane Calvert 9 A Lutheranism of the Table': Religion and the Victorian Vegetarians 135 James R. T. E. Gregory Part 4 The Theory of Vegetarianism 153 10 The Argument from Marginal Cases: A Philosophical and Theological Defense 155 Daniel Dombrowski 11 Seeing and Believing: Gender and Species Hierarchy in Contemporary Cultures of Animal Food 168 Erika Cudworth 12 Seeing, Choosing and Eating: Theology and the Feminist- Vegetarian Debate 184 Rachel Muers 13 Structure and Agency in the Antislavery and Animal Liberation Movements 198 Nigel Pleasants Part 5 Theological Views on Current Food Debates 217 14 Symbol, Community and Vegetarianism 219 David Brown 15 Eucharistic Eating, and Why Many Early Christians Preferred Fish 232 Michael S. Northcott 16 Protological and Eschatological Vegetarianism 247 Christopher Southgate.