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Paul Waldau

Paul Waldau is the director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy and a professor in the Department of Environment and Population Health at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. With Kimberley Patton, he edited A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2006).

(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Science & TechnologyJuly 3, 2009

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

A praying dog at a Japanese temple, chimpanzees expressing awe at a waterfall: can our animal cousins be religious?

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