Kimberley C. Patton (PhD, Religion, Harvard) is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, 2009), which and won the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Religious Studies in the Analytical-Descriptive category, and The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia, 2006) and the editor of (with Benjamin Ray) A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (California, 2000), (with John Stratton Hawley) Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Princeton, 2005), and (with Paul Waldau) A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia, 2006).
This substantial contribution opens up a broad field and will clearly be inspiration to further work on animals and religion. It is very much welcome. -- Ingvild SA|lid Gilhus Journal of the American Academy of Religion A Communion of Subjects delivers a wealth of resources for stirring the conscience and stoking the imagination. -- Matthew Halteman Christian Century Unique, compassionate, and far-reaching -- Frederick M. Smith Religious Studies Review