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An Alphabet of Animals gathers together in words and photographs some of the many ways in which people have looked at animals and have thought about them. From different ages, both past and present, and from many different parts of the world, this book records in words and photographs how people have responded to the animals around them. Animals have been exploited and abused, but they have also been admired so much that a monkey has been seen as the manifestation of God on earth, and an ox has led the way to Enlightenment. From Ants to Zoos, the Alphabet takes us into the worlds of animals and helps us to see and to understand them in a new way. Many poems and translations are quoted here, but some have been written or made especially for this book.

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John Bowker is a prize-winning author who was formerly professor of religious studies at the University of Lancaster, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and professor at Gresham College, London. He has been adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at North Carolina State University. He is the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, and author of What Muslims Believe, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions, The Sacred Neuron, Beliefs That Changed the World: The History and Ideas of the Great Religions, and The Meanings of Death, which won the HarperCollins Religious Book Prize. Bowker's recent book Before the Ending of the Day: Life and Love, Death and Redemption (Toronto, The Key, 2010) gathered in a single volume for the first time his collection of poems and translations. The translations are of poems that come from different parts of the world, ranging from the Middle East to India, China, and Japan.

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