Voices from the Edge: Centring Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology

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Over the past several decades, scholars working in biblical, theological, and religious studies have increasingly attended to the substantive ways that our experiences and understanding of God and God's relation to the world are structured by our experiences and concepts of race, gender, disability, and sexuality. These personal and social identities and their intersections serve as a hermeneutical lens for our interpretations of God, self, the other, and our religious texts and traditions. However, they have not received nearly the same level of attention from analytic theologians and philosophers of religion, and so a wide range of important issues remain ripe for analytic treatment. The papers in this volume address the various ways in which the aforementioned social identities intersect with, shape, and might be shaped by the questions with which analytic theology and philosophy of religion have typically been concerned, as well as what new questions they suggest to the discipline. We focus on three central areas of analytic theology: methodological principles, the intersection of social identities with religious epistemology, and the connections among eschatology, ante-mortem suffering, and ante-mortem social perceptions of bodies. Dedication Contents Contributors Introduction I. METHODOLOGY 1. Seeking out Epistemic Friction in the Philosophy of Religion • Helen De Cruz 2. Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation • Sameer Yadav 3. Mary as Mediator • Amy Peeler II. SOCIAL IDENTITY, RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY, AND RELIGIOUS AFFECT 4. Non-deference to Religious Authority: Epistemic Arrogance or Justice? • Teri Merrick 5. Shattered Faith: The Social Epistemology of Deconversion by Spiritually Violent Religious Trauma • Joshua Cockayne, David Efird, and Jack Warman 6. Sacramental Shame in Black Churches: How Racism and Respectability Politics Shape the Experiences of Black LGBTQ and Same-Gender-Loving Christians • Theresa W. Tobin and Dawne Moon 7. Conceptualizing the Atonement • Kathryn Pogin III. SOCIAL BODIES AND THE ESCHATON 8. The Shape of Trans Afterlife Justice • Blake Hereth 9. Defiant Afterlife: Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God • Kevin Timpe Index