Animals, Law, and Religion Program talk at Harvard Divinity School

The Animals, Law, and Religion Project will be bringing Professor Donovan Schaefer (Univ. of Oxford) to campus on March 31 for a talk at the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions at 5:15pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/974532365955943/. Prof. Schaefer will be discussing his new book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke University Press, 2015), in which Professor Schaefer places affect theory in conversation with post-Darwinian evolutionary theory to explore the extent to which nonhuman animals have the capacity to practice religion, linking human forms of religion and power through a new analysis of the chimpanzee waterfall dance as observed by Jane Goodall. He will be presented by HDS Professor Kimberly Patton.