Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Bill of Fare to the Feast: The Whats and Whys of Vegetarianism......Page 18
1 The Human in Prehistory......Page 41
2 Eastern Religions and Practice......Page 71
3 Pythagoreanism......Page 93
4 Greek Philosophy and Roman Imperium......Page 111
5 Judaism and the Earlier Christian Heritage......Page 134
6 Bogomils, Cathars, and the Later Medieval Mind......Page 153
7 The Humanism of the Renaissance......Page 163
8 The Cartesians and Their Adversaries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 175
9 Preaching without Practising: From Mandeville and Pope to Goldsmith and Wagner......Page 205
10 Militant Advocates: From Oswald and Ritson to Shelley, Phillips, and Gompertz......Page 249
11 The Victorians, the Edwardians, and the Founding of the Vegetarian Society......Page 284
12 Vegetarians and Vegans in the Twentieth Century......Page 307
13 Vegetarianism in North America......Page 325
Postscript Prospects......Page 350
Notes......Page 356
Selected Bibliography......Page 390
B......Page 402
C......Page 403
F......Page 404
I......Page 405
M......Page 406
P......Page 407
S......Page 408
W......Page 409
Z......Page 410