Listening to the Voices That Talk Back: A Response to Burley
Wilda Gafney is a womanist biblical scholar who privileges the re-readings of the scriptures of the Jewish and Christian traditions by women of color. Hers is not a name that one is likely to meet in analytic philosophy of religion or even in analytic theology. Yet, I begin my reflections on Mikel B...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 721-728 |
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| Summary: | Wilda Gafney is a womanist biblical scholar who privileges the re-readings of the scriptures of the Jewish and Christian traditions by women of color. Hers is not a name that one is likely to meet in analytic philosophy of religion or even in analytic theology. Yet, I begin my reflections on Mikel Burley’s A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary with her words because she illustrates the intersectional feminist/womanist lens that I would like to bring to the conversation. In his book, Burley offers a valuable critique of contemporary philosophy of religion and a compelling vision of what it could become. Even those who remain unpersuaded by particular arguments within it must acknowledge that analytic philosophy of religion has addressed only the tiniest fraction of issues, problems, questions, and religions that are available for it to explore, privileging instead traditional forms of Christianity. There is much that I wish to embrace, celebrate, and apply to my own practice of philosophy of religion within this text. But I believe that Burley’s vision would be even more radically pluralist if it incorporated the insights offered by feminist standpoint epistemology. If we do so, then we will find that Gafney’s womanist wrestling with the Jewish and Christian scriptures is an example of precisely the kind of religious engagement that we must seek out in other religious traditions if we are truly to do them justice. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab050 |