| Name | GCSE/AS | ISBN |
Books and Writers |
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| Andrew Linzey | AS/A2 |
0-334-00005-X | Andrew Linzey is the world's leading Christian working in the animal
rights area. His first book Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment was
published in 1976 since when he has wriiten many more. This section concentrates
on his 1994 book Animal Theology
for AS/A2 Level personal study work. This book will also
introduce you to some of the other key figures and their writings: Thomas
Aquinas, Albert Schweitzer and Karl Barth. Click link for study guide. |
| Andrew Linzey | GCSE |
This link will take you to details of Andrew Linzey's writing that you could use for GCSE Animal Rights coursework. You might find the AS/A2 section useful as well. |
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| Peter Singer |
AS/A2 |
0-7126-7444-6 | Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University ,Australia. He has worked at Oxford and in California too. Animal Liberation was first published in 1975/6 was one of the first ever published on the subject and remains, probably, the most influential and generally ground-breaking.. |
| Tom Regan & Andrew Linzey (Eds) |
AS/A2/ |
0-281-04373-6 | Animals and Chritianity: A book of extracts from all the key names in any discussion of Animals and Christianity from Aquinas to the present day - including a section on references in the Bible. Read for yourself all those discussed in Animal Theology. Currently out of print - apply to libraries. |
| Andrew Linzey & Dorothy Yamamoto (Eds) |
AS/A2/ |
0-334-02732-2 | Animals on the
Agenda: A book of essays which, being more recent than Animal
Theology, pick up and elaborate on many of the themes and issues via
contemporary writers. Very useful for following up many of Linzey's points |
| Charter of Animal Rights |
AS/GCSE |
Not a book but an interesting document, originally decared in Australia in 1999, that echos the UN's Charter of Human Rights. Could be a very good place to begin discussion. Notice that Prof.Andrew Linzey is the Patron of the Charter and the Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama has endorsed it too. Find Guide sheet on Animal Organisations page. | |
| Tony Seargent | GCSE |
Christian writer whose book (Animal rights) is very readable - almost evangelical. It contains a good selection of quotations from past characters. Also a section on the 23rd.Psalm as a charter for animal rights! | |
| Padmasiri de Silva |
AS/A2 |
0-333-67906-7 | Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism, Macmillan Press 1998. One chapter deals with environmental ethics including sentientism, respect for life, human domination of nature and other topics recognisable from reading Linzey. |