Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion

This book presents a new critical awareness of gender in philosophy and religion, suggesting new core concepts at the interface of philosophy and religion, and ethics and epistemology. Introducing ways in which feminism in philosophical accounts of knowledge is now reshaping fundamental aspects of philosophy and religion, Anderson explores particular ethical and epistemological assumptions and concepts such as objectivity and subjectivity, autonomy and vulnerability, immortality and natality, knowledge and justice.Presenting a clear argument for a middle ground between the extremes of feminist philosophies based upon a feminine ideal and of masculinist philosophies based upon a masculine ideal, this book offers a timely account of gender-sensitive topics and will appeal to a wide range of student and other readers exploring areas in the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy and epistemology or feminist or gender studies.