Description: Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted cultural assumptions about who can be saved and how redemption ought to occur.
Review Quotes: Katharine Mershon offers a signal contribution to animal studies in religious history, showing how stories of redemption script human relationships to dogs. Whenever humans talk about their dogs they reflect on what lives are worth having. After you read Dogs Save, you will never think about animal freedom the same way again.--Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming Religion