000756883 000__ 04385cam\a2200421\i\4500 000756883 001__ 756883 000756883 005__ 20210515115700.0 000756883 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000756883 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000756883 008__ 160426s2016\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\d 000756883 020__ $$a9780190609030$$q(electronic book) 000756883 0247_ $$a10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733156$$2doi 000756883 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001382424 000756883 035__ $$a756883 000756883 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000756883 050_0 $$aHV4764$$b.D38 2016eb 000756883 08204 $$a179.30973$$223 000756883 1001_ $$aDavis, Janet M.,$$eauthor. 000756883 24514 $$aThe gospel of kindness$$h[electronic resource] :$$banimal welfare and the making of modern America /$$cJanet M. Davis. 000756883 264_1 $$aNew York, NY (xiii, 302 pages) :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2016. 000756883 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$billustrations 000756883 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000756883 336__ $$astill image$$2rdacontent 000756883 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000756883 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000756883 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000756883 5050_ $$a"A righteous man regards the life of his beast": The Roots of the Gospel of kindness in the Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Reform -- "A World of Kindness is a Copy of Heaven": Animals, Moral Uplift, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- From Dog Eaters to Mule Beaters: Representing the Accused as Alien Other -- An Empire of Kindness: American Animal Welfare Policy and Moral Expansionism Overseas -- "A Country Rich in Cattle": Gospels of Kindness in Colonial South Asia -- "So Thoroughly Un-American": Making Historical Sense of the Bullfight. 000756883 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000756883 520__ $$a"When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern secular movement that privileges animals over people. Yet the movement's roots are deeply tied to the nation's history of religious revivalism and social reform. The Gospel of Kindness explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War. Dedicated primarily to laboring animals at its inception in an animal-powered world, the movement eventually included virtually all areas of human and animal interaction. Embracing animals as brethren through biblical concepts of stewardship, a diverse coalition of temperance groups, teachers, Protestant missionaries, religious leaders, civil rights activists, policy makers, and anti-imperialists forged an expansive transnational "gospel of kindness," which defined animal mercy as a signature American value. Their interpretation of this "gospel" extended beyond the New Testament to preach kindness as a secular and spiritual truth. As a cultural product of antebellum revivalism, reform, and the rights revolution of the Civil War era, animal kindness became a barometer of free moral agency, higher civilization, and assimilation. Yet given the cultural, economic, racial, and ethnic diversity of the United States, its empire, and other countries of contact, standards of kindness and cruelty were culturally contingent and potentially controversial. Diverse constituents defended specific animal practices, such as cockfighting, bullfighting, songbird consumption, and kosher slaughter, as inviolate cultural traditions that reinforced their right to self-determination. Ultimately, American animal advocacy became a powerful humanitarian ideal, a barometer of inclusion and national belonging at home and abroad that endures to this day"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000756883 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000756883 650_0 $$aAnimal welfare$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000756883 650_0 $$aAnimal rights$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000756883 650_0 $$aSocial values$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000756883 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xSocial conditions. 000756883 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aDavis, Janet M.$$tGospel of kindess.$$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2016$$z9780199733156$$w(DLC) 2015043336$$w(OCoLC)934884257 000756883 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000756883 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733156.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000756883 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:756883$$pGLOBAL_SET 000756883 980__ $$aEBOOK 000756883 980__ $$aBIB 000756883 982__ $$aEbook 000756883 983__ $$aOnline