It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read Kinship and Killing by Katherine Wills Perlo
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Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints four different strategies for coping with this conflict. The first is aggression, in which a divinely conferred superiority or karma justifies animal usage. The second is evasion, which emphasizes benevolent aspects of the human-animal relationship within the exploitative structure, such as the image of Jesus as a "good shepherd."...
Kinship and Killing by Katherine Wills Perlo is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.
This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Kinship and Killing aloud.
Kinship and Killing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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