The idea of the animal god was prevalent in the scholarship of the late nineteenth and earlier
twentieth centuries. It was frequently postulated as one of the major phases through which …

… our God is an ass’s head”: Animals … gods are creatures of human imagination and tradition.
This does not necessarily mean that gods are seen as less real than humans and animals – …

… we might take of animals in theology proper. The views are ‘high’ insofar as they elevate
the status of animals. We might think that some god or gods manifest as animals. This appears …

… must be numbered the human forms bearing the heads of animals. I refer, of course, only to
… first Emperor, the representation of gods in the form of animals was sedulously avoided. After …

… animal god characters. Never simply human nor animal, metaphor nor referent, the animal
god … These more promising operations of the fictional animal gods can be clarified further by …

… ’s Lamb of God [ch.8], as … animal sacrifice. The concluding chapter soars, considering, as
it does, the θε ο ν ρ (divine man) and talking animals, both important issues given that animals …

Most wild and domesticated animals have now disappeared from our lives; others have
been subsumed in unprecedented numbers into our households as pets. A third group …

… Andrew Linzey has been arguing that animals aren't only anything, but rather that they
matter to God, and should do so to us. In this collection of essays, Linzey counters with his …

… Animals in particular play a … animal and plant traditions derived from Africa with many
others assimilated from Amerindians. We identified a total of 129 species of animals (or animal …

Mit der Krise des Nationalstaates am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Erfahrung einer
zusehends vernetzten und globalisierten Welt gewinnt auch eine neue Perspektive in den …