The Animal Body Multiple: Science, Religion, and the Invention of Halal Stunning
This article proposes a specific kind of ontological investigation in the field of science and religion. I argue that science and religion can create distinct practices that enact multiple realities, and thus they should be seen as more than different views of the same world. By analyzing the detail...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 286-305 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Natural sciences
/ Animal health
/ Ritual butchering
/ Halal
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Science and religion
B Animal welfare B Halal B ontological turn B religious slaughter |
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| Summary: | This article proposes a specific kind of ontological investigation in the field of science and religion. I argue that science and religion can create distinct practices that enact multiple realities, and thus they should be seen as more than different views of the same world. By analyzing the details of scientific experiments crucial for the invention of halal stunning, I demonstrate that religion and science are both permeable to the social, the biological, and to each other, and that seemingly incommensurable realities can co-occur in the body of an animal. Here, animals’ modes of existence are interdependent with the technologies being used, and with the web of interactions that they are drawn into. In the process of inventing halal stunning, it is not so much about the same animal body that is thought about differently as it is about animals spanning across multiple, physiological, realities as they are recruited into different webs of interactions to create a new slaughter method. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12588 |