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Learn moreAn elegant manifesto for improving life—and death—for all beings on sacred Mother Earth
Combining humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking research, Sacred Sendoffs explores human relationships with beloved pets, wild creatures, animal astronauts, marine life, farmed animals, and other sentient beings. Along the way, animal chaplain Sarah Bowen shares insights for sustaining their lives, honoring deaths, and managing the emotions that arise when we lose an animal we love. While many books focus exclusively on pet loss, animal welfare, or environmental issues, Bowen's ever curious and playful style takes on all three, revealing their unavoidable entanglement. Sacred Sendoffs helps animal lovers uncover practical actions and everyday opportunities for helping the more-than-human world thrive.
Sarah A. Bowen is an animal chaplain and advocate for all creatures. She offers workshops on interspecies mindfulness practices, works with humans around animal grief/loss, and advocates for exploited and endangered species within both religious and secular contexts. You can often find her huddled over wildlife struck by cars, giving them a sacred sendoff. Bowen is also a cofounder of Compassion Consortium, the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies faith community, an academic dean at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary; a columnist on animal/human relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine; and the author of two award-winning books on modern spirituality, including Spiritual Rebel. Her work has also appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Elephant Journal, mindbodygreen, and on a wide range of podcasts. She holds a BA in human ecology, MA in religious studies, and is joyfully engaged in postgraduate research in humane religious studies and anthrozoology.
Stina Nielsen has been seen on Broadway and in London's West End in The Judas Kiss with Liam Neeson. Her other Broadway credits include Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Kathleen Turner. Her regional theater credits include Tennessee Williams's The Notebook of Trigorin with Lynn Redgrave, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage, and Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Her TV credits include Law & Order SVU, Another World, The City, and All My Children. Stina has recorded over 175 audiobooks, has been nominated for several Audie Awards, and was named one of the "Best Voices of 2011" by AudioFile magazine.