Academic Calendar 2017/2018 - Religion, Justice and Animals

RLCT 2156  Religion, Justice and Animals

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Threaded through most religious traditions has been a notion of justice concerning our responsibility to others. Students develop critical social justice tools for engaging with religious ideas specifically around our duty to non-human animals. Students consider the role of non-human animals, both literally and symbolically, in religious imaginaries and whether or not there a meaningful difference between religious and secular considerations of non-human animals. This course may be credited towards Gender Equality and Social Justice.