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Steve Wiggins, Religions Editor for Oxford University Press, on Spirit Unleashed

I grew up with pets. In a house with three boys, an aging mother, and no husband, my mother seemed to know instinctively that animals were a way to engage children. She herself had grown up with animals, although not really from a farming family. Living with animals leads to conclusions scientists fear to make. That’s one reason I find Anne Benvenuti’s Spirit Unleashed: Reimagining Human-Animal Relations so important. Not only do animals remind us of who we are, they are who we are.

animal family, animal rescue, animal studies, anthrozoology, human-animal relationsAnne BenvenutiDecember 15, 2014spirit unleashed, ecospirituality, animal family, animal sentience, animal personhood, animal studies, animal behavior, Steve Wiggins, Oxford University Press, reviewComment