Product Description: This book examines one of the most pressing cultural concerns that surfaced in the last decade - the question of the place and significance of the animal. This collection of essays represents the outcome of various conversations regarding animal studies and shows multidisciplinarity at its very best, namely, a rigorous approach within one discipline in conversation with others around a common theme...read more

Issues of humanitarian intervention, weapons proliferation, and preventative war against rogue states are outlined and clarified in this well-reasoned, challenging repartee that searches for common ground within the Christian tradition.