Abstract
Recent social science research indicates that animal rights philosophy plays the functional role of a religion in the lives of the most committed animal rights advocates. In this paper, I apply the functional religion thesis to the recent debate over the place of direct action animal rights advocacy in democratic theory. I outline the usefulness of the functional religion thesis and explain its implications for theorists that call for deliberative theories to be more inclusive of coercive forms of activism.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 299-312 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Res Publica |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- animal rights
- deliberative democracy
- direct action
- extremists
- fundamentalism
- religiousness
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