Offers a focused insight into a key aspect of Hindu religious practice

Integrates primary research and tertiary sources to give a multifaceted understanding of the intricacies of cow care practice

Challenges conventional Western thought on cow care and its worldwide implications for animal ethics

Offers a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India Explores dharma, yoga and bhakti paradigms as starting points for bringing Hindu animal ethics into conversation with contemporary Western animal ethics Complements recently developed ethics-of-care thinking to create a solid basis for sustaining all kinds of cow care communities

Autorentext
Kenneth R. Valpey is a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. Besides Hindu animal ethics, he has published on Vaishnava Hindu temple worship traditions and on India's enduring favorite of bhakti literature, the Bhgavata Pura.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Release of Cosmic Cows.- 3. Cows in Contested Fields.- 4. Surveying the Cow Care Field.- 5. Cow Care and the Ethics of Care.- 6. "These Cows Will Not Be Lost" - Envisioning A Care-Full Future for Cows.- 7. Concluding Ruminations.