Introduction (Rachel Muers and David Grumett)
Developments in Biblical and Historical Theology
Food and diet in the priestly material of the Pentateuch (Nathan MacDonald)
Mosaic food rules in Celtic spirituality in Ireland (David Grumett)
Biblical Vegetarianism? A critical and constructive assessment (David G. Horrell)
Angels, beasts, machines, and men: configuring the human and non-human in Judaeo-Christian tradition (David Clough)
Perspective from Late Antiquity
Vegetarianism, heresy, and asceticism in late ancient Christianity (Teresa M. Shaw)
'The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?': The ethics of vegetarianism in the writings of Plutarch (Michael Beer)
Hoi polloi: spiritual choices for the many and the few (John Wilkins)
Faith at the Origins of Modern Vegetarianism
'Ours is the food that Eden knew': themes in the theology and practice of modern Christian vegetarians (Samantha Jane Calvert)
'A Lutheranism of the table': religion and the Victorian vegetarians (James R.T.E. Gregory)
The Theory of Vegetarianism
The argument from marginal cases: a philosophical and theological defense (Daniel Dombrowski)
Seeing and believing: gender and species hierarchy in contemporary cultures of animal food (Erika Cudworth)
Seeing, choosing and eating: Theology and the feminist vegetarian debate (Rachel Muers)
Structure and agency in the antislavery and animal liberation movements (Nigel Pleasants)
Theological Views on Current Food Debates
Symbol, community, and vegetarianism (David Brown)
Eucharistic eating, and why many early Christians preferred fish (Michael S. Northcott)
Protological and eschatological vegetarianism (Christopher Southgate)
Conclusion (Rachel Muers)
Index