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The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron S. Gross (review)

The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron S.... notions (108), and to reach “beyond Deleuze” (129). In Damlé’s analysis, the a - lter native perspectives women writers propose in their texts open up political possi- bilities of confronting and contesting assumptions about female corporeality and desire, in ways which put into question strategies of embodiment and even chal- lenge the value of the integrity of the body, and imagine instead rhizomatic en- counters and passages between becoming bodies, with and aer D ft eleuze.  The University of Florida Brigitte Weltman- aron Aaron S. Gross, e Th Question of the Animal and Religion: eo Th retical Stakes, Practical Implications New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 292 pp. What is religion? Aaron S. Gross’s audacious bo e Th o Qk u estion of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications dares to revisit this fundamental question. “I hypothesize,” Gross writes, “that religion is a dimension of reality that might be seen, for example, not only in relations among members of the species homo sapiens, but in relationships homo sapie ha ns ve with nonhuman (and non- divine) beings, and in relations among nonhuman species themselves” (97). What would religious experience be like in animals? Gross doesn’t spend http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron S. Gross (review)

Rother, Adeline
The Comparatist , Volume 40 – Nov 11, 2016
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notions (108), and to reach “beyond Deleuze” (129). In Damlé’s analysis, the a - lter native perspectives women writers propose in their texts open up political possi- bilities of confronting and contesting assumptions about female corporeality and desire, in ways which put into question strategies of embodiment and even chal- lenge the value of the integrity of the body, and imagine instead rhizomatic en- counters and passages between becoming bodies, with and aer D ft eleuze.  The University of Florida Brigitte Weltman- aron Aaron S. Gross, e Th Question of the Animal and Religion: eo Th retical Stakes, Practical Implications New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 292 pp. What is religion? Aaron S. Gross’s audacious bo e Th o Qk u estion of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications dares to revisit this fundamental question. “I hypothesize,” Gross writes, “that religion is a dimension of reality that might be seen, for example, not only in relations among members of the species homo sapiens, but in relationships homo sapie ha ns ve with nonhuman (and non- divine) beings, and in relations among nonhuman species themselves” (97). What would religious experience be like in animals? Gross doesn’t spend

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