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“Katherine Wills Perlo has turned the traditional discourse on animals and religion inside out. Instead of focusing on the impact of religion on our treatment of animals, she reveals the distortions that our prejudices toward our nonhuman neighbors have had on religious teachings. A remarkable marriage of insightful scholarship and deep compassion, Kinship and Killing is a seminal work that will influence the direction of the debate on religion and animals for decades to come.” — Norm Phelps, author of The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible

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Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints four different strategies for coping with this conflict. The first is aggression, in which a divinely conferred superiority or karma justifies animal usage. The second is evasion, which emphasizes benevolent aspects of the human-animal relationship within the exploitative structure, such as the image of Jesus as a “good shepherd.” The third is defense, which acknowledges the problematic nature of killing, leading many religions to adopt a propitiation mechanism, such as apologizing for sacrifice. And the fourth is effective-defensive, which recognizes animal abuse as inherently unethical.

As humans feel more empathy toward animals, Perlo finds that adherents revise their interpretations of religious texts. Preexisting ontologies, such as Christianity’s changing God or Buddhism’s principle of impermanence, along with advances in farming practices and technology, also encourage changes in treatment. As cultures begin to appreciate the different types of perception and consciousness experienced by nonhumans, definitions of reality become complicated and humans lean more toward unitary accounts of shared existence. These evolving attitudes exert a crucial influence on religious thought, Perlo argues, moving humans ever closer to a nonspeciesist world.

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The American edition of Marketing Management is the world’s leading marketing text because its content and organization consistently reflect changes in marketing theory and practice . This new European Edition of Marketing Management has been inspired by the American edition and explores the challenges facing European marketing practitioners, with all the case studies and exercises newly re-written for European students.

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Praise for the First European Edition of Marketing Management

“This is a much longed-for edition of the classic Marketing Management. The European co-authors have done a committed job to adapt the text – not an easy task which requires balanced judgment and wisdom. A large number of cases have been skilfully selected to make European students feel at home. The theoretical framework is basically unchanged but has been supplemented with seminal contributions from Europe.”
Professor Evert Gummesson, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden

“The scope and range of marketing continues to move at a pace in today’s modern world. This textbook demonstrates admirably this scope and range of concepts and issues which students of marketing must prepare and perform against. This text examines traditional aspects of marketing and blends these with modern and future concepts. At the same time it bridges the Atlantic in perspective with excellent examples of interest to all marketers. Students studying marketing will do well to make this a must read.”
Professor David Carson, Ulster Business School, University of Ulster

“An excellent up-to-date, comprehensive and broadly structured text. This book represents a serious attempt to adapt Kotler’s ideas to the wider views of the marketing world, not the reverse, from Nordic relationships and Chinese guanxi to French post-modernism.”
Michael Saren, BA, PhD, Professor of Marketing, University of Leicester, England

“Marketing Management exhibits all the qualities of a true marketing classic: accessibility, state-of-the-art overviews, theoretical rigour and managerial relevance. This multi-purpose textbook is a ‘must-have’ for academics and practitioners.”
Martin Wetzels, Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Research, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

“The first European edition of the seminal work Marketing Management is a welcome addition to the growing body of work in this important discipline. The authors have recognised the strong contribution of European academics to relationship marketing, as well as recent developments in the service dominant logic, digital marketing, and marketing metrics. This will become a standard text for both undergraduate and postgraduate marketing programmes across the continent.”
Professor Graham Hooley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Aston University

“The first European edition of Marketing Management provides students and practitioners of marketing with an innovative perspective on the classic American original. This outstanding book synthesises contemporary marketing thought, presents fresh European examples and illustrates the need to stay alert in a continuously changing society.”
Karin M. Ekström, Professor in Marketing, University of Boras, Sweden