This volume focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, feminist and pantheist conceptions of the divine, and nonhuman animals connect to existing issues in philosophy of religion.
Blake Hereth is a PhD Candidate in philosophy at the University of Washington. Ze has defended animal immortality in Heaven and Philosophy (2018), animal universalism in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays on Heaven (2017), and afterlife justice for transgender persons in Hinder Them Not: Centering Marginalized Voices in Analytic Theology (forthcoming).
Kevin Timpe holds the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin College. His books include Disability and Inclusive Communities (2018), the Routledge Companion to Free Will (2017), and Free Will and Theism (2016). In addition to philosophy of religion, Timpe's scholarly work focuses on philosophy of disability, metaphysics, and virtue ethics.
Forward
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Introduction
Kevin Timpe and Blake Hereth
1. Philosophy of Religion from the Margins: A Theoretical Analysis and Focus Group Study
Helen De Cruz
2. That We May Be Whole: Doing Philosophy of Religion with the Whole Self
Michelle Panchuk
3. Epistemic Injustice and Religious Experience
Kirk Lougheed
4. Smelling God: Olfaction as Religious Experience
Joshua Cockayne
5. 'Not My People': Jewish-Christian Ethics and Divine Reversals in Response to Injustice
Joshua Blanchard
6. Eschatology for Creeping Things (and Other Animals)
Dustin Crummett
7. Exploring Theological Zoology: Might Nonhuman Animals be Spiritual (but not Religious)?
Faith Glavey Pawl
8. Animal Gods
Blake Hereth
9. The Resurrection of the Minority Body: Physical Disability in the Life of Heaven
David Efird
10. Disabled Beatitude
Kevin Timpe
11. When Personhood Goes Wrong in Ethics and Philosophical Theology: Disability, Ableism, and (Modern) Personhood
Scott M. Williams
12. Marriage, Reproduction, and the Incarnation: What Could Jesus Do?
Eric T. Yang and Stephen T. Davis
13. A Transfeminist Critique of Mormon Theologies of Gender
Kelli D. Potter
14. Heavenly (Gendered) Bodies? Gender Persistence in the Resurrection and Its Implications
Hilary Yancey
15. Limbo, Hiddenness, and the Beatific Vision (And Procreation, For Some, in the Life to Come)
David Worsley
16. Religious Racial Formation Theory and its Metaphysics: A Research Program in the Philosophy of Religion
Sameer Yadav