Foundation
Animals & Religion is grounded in the work of Dr. Lisa Kemmerer, whose research explores the relationship between religious traditions and our responsibilities toward other living beings.
Over many years, this work has brought forward a clear and consistent insight: sacred texts across major religions call for respect and kindness toward animals.
Lisa Kemmerer
Dr. Lisa Kemmerer is a scholar of religion and ethics whose work examines how religious traditions understand and relate to nonhuman life.
Across a wide range of traditions, her research brings forward a clear and consistent insight: sacred texts call for respect and kindness toward animals.
Through careful study of scriptures, stories, and lived practices, her work reveals a shared ethical ground that has often been overlooked or set aside in contemporary interpretation.
Animals & Religion builds on this foundation, translating extensive scholarship into a structure that can be engaged by a wider audience, including people of faith, educators, and community leaders.
Many of these works are available through Tapestry and can be explored in the Teaching section.
Tapestry
Tapestry is an educational nonprofit within which this work is developed and sustained.
It provides a framework for long-term inquiry into ethical questions across cultures and traditions, with a focus on how values take shape in lived contexts.
Within this framework, Animals & Religion develops as both a body of knowledge and a shared resource, carried into communities through study, dialogue, and engagement.
A Shared Foundation
The project brings together research and structure.
Lisa Kemmerer’s work provides the intellectual foundation, while Tapestry offers the framework through which this work is developed and shared.
Together, they support a body of work that is both grounded in careful study and carried into real-world contexts.