The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)

"Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, feminist and pantheist conceptions of the divine, and nonhuman animals connect to existing issues in philosophy of religion. By staking out new avenues for future research, this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in analytic philosophy of religion and analytic philosophical theology"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Section I Methodology 1 Philosophy of Religion From the Margins: A Theoretical Analysis and Focus Group Study 2 That We May Be Whole: Doing Philosophy of Religion With the Whole Self Section II Religious Epistemology and Experience 3 Epistemic Injustice and Religious Experience 4 Smelling God: Olfaction as Religious Experience 5 ‘Not My People’: Jewish-Christian Ethics and Divine Reversals in Response to Injustice Section III Non-Human Animals 6 Eschatology for Creeping Things (and Other Animals) 7 Exploring Theological Zoology: Might Non-Human Animals Be Spiritual (but Not Religious)? 8 Animal Gods Section IV Disability 9 The Resurrection of the Minority Body: Physical Disability in the Life of Heaven 10 Disabled Beatitude 11 When Personhood Goes Wrong in Ethics and Philosophical Theology: Disability, Ableism, and (Modern) Personhood Section V Sex, Gender, and Race 12 Marriage, Reproduction, and the Incarnation: What Could Jesus Do? 13 A Transfeminist Critique of Mormon Theologies of Gender 14 Heavenly (Gendered) Bodies? Gender Persistence in the Resurrection and Its Implications 15 Limbo, Hiddenness, and the Beatific Vision (and Procreation, for Some, in the Life to Come) 16 Religious Racial Formation Theory and Its Metaphysics: A Research Program in the Philosophy of Religion Contributors Index