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Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition Hardcover - 2008

by Laura Hobgood-Oster


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Analysis of animals in the history of the Christian tradition has been exclusively symbolic, but Laura Hobgood-Oster utilizes the feminist perspective in her examination of the impact of animal presence. In challenging the metaphoric reading of animals that reinforces human superiority and dominance, Holy Dogs and Asses

underscores animal agency.

Creatures play various active roles, which Hobgood-Oster categorizes as exemplars of piety, sources of revelation, saintly martyrs, and the primary other in an intimate relationship. Drawing from rich oral histories, legends, artwork, and popular stories of saints, this study directs our attention to the animal body--also a central concern of Christian theology and feminist criticism. Hobgood-Oster invites the reader to venture beyond the exclusive symbolic nature of animals in the Christian tradition to an awareness that we can know ourselves more fully by reference to the animal.

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  • Title Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition
  • Author Laura Hobgood-Oster
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date March 6, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780252032134 / 0252032136
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.13 x 6.4 x 0.84 in (23.19 x 16.26 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals - Religious aspects - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007016984
  • Dewey Decimal Code 241.693

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  • Books & Culture, 03/01/2008, Page 9

About the author

Laura Hobgood-Oster is the Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in Religion at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and author of "She Glanceth from Earth to Heaven" The Phenomenon of Love Mysticism among Women in Antebellum Virginia and Maryland.
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