Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions by Steven Rosen - 1987

Bala Books, 1987. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. Preface by Isaac Bashevis Singer. v+120 pp. with bibliography, index. Though it has been mainly in recent years that nutritionists have presented convincing evidence in support for vegetarianism, the world's great religions have for thousands of years have espoused the vegetarian ideal as the utimate expression of compassion. In this work, the author explores the ofter misunderstood vegetarian teachings of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhismm and Hinduism.