Epistemic Injustice and Religious Identity
The Role of Power, Knowledge and Ignorance
Epistemic Injustice and Religious Identity
The Role of Power, Knowledge and Ignorance
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Description
The first exploration of epistemic injustice and religious identity in the academic study of religion, focusing on major faith traditions in the context of Western secular society.
Epistemic injustice and epistemologies of ignorance are powerful tools of oppression and marginalization. In naming these phenomena, an interdisciplinary team of scholars expose many of the ways in which religious credibility and intelligibility are linked to social power.
Extending beyond the narrow discourse about Christianity they provide a broader discussion of Judaism and Islam and religious traditions in Africa and East Asia. They connect political, religious and social philosophies with gender studies and theology to offer a range of perspectives. The resulting insights lay the foundations required to recognize how religious traditions perpetuate their own forms of epistemic injustice and facilitate structures of ignorance.
By discussing religion as a site of knowledge production, social relations and political power, this collection confirms that religion is not exempt from epistemic injustice. It reveals the extent that such injustices manifests in academic scholarship about religion. Timely and necessary, it is vital for philosophers of religion looking to understand the complex system of identity power and privilege that surrounds religions today.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Epistemic Injustice in the Academic Study of Religion
1. The Concept of Religion as a Tool of Hermeneutical Colonization – David C. Spewak (Marion Military Institute, USA)
2. Contributory Justice for African Traditional Religion in the Philosophy of Religion – Kirk Lougheed (LLC International University, Lithuania)
3. Theologies of Religions, the Race-Religion Nexus, and the Problem of Ignorance – Marianne Moyaert (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Section 2: Epistemic Injustice in the Religious Beliefs and Practices
4. Who Gets Suffering? Theodicy as Gaslighting – Blake Hereth (Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, USA) and Michelle Panchuk (Murray State University, USA) 5. The Problem of Revelatory Evil – Mike Ashfield (Utah State University, USA) and Taylor-Grey Miller (Brigham Young University, USA)
6. Faith-Shaking Trauma, Theodical Logic, and the Abuse of Meaning – Amber Griffioen
7. Feminist Midrash: a Challenge to Epistemic Injustice – Hanna Houdayer (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Section 3: Epistemic Injustice and Religion in Secular Society 8. Vandalization of a World-Picture: Religious Offense and Hermeneutical Injustice – Mehdi Ebrahimpour (Independent Scholar)
9. Whose Freedom of Conscience Should Laicity Protect? Quebec's Laicity Law and Religious Ignoring – Gilles Beauchamp (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
10. Democratic Deliberation, Religious Restraint and Epistemic Injustice – A. Sophie Lauwers (KU Leuven, Belgium)
11. Epistemic Injustice in the Religious Education Classroom, A Case from the Norwegian Upper Secondary School – Lina Snoek Hauan (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway)
12. Religious Minorities in the News During the Quebec Crisis of Reasonable Accommodations: A Case of Testimonial Domination – Maëlle Turbide (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
13. Epistemic Negligence in Australia's 'Religious Freedom' Media Discourse – Louise Richardson-Self and Sharri Lembryk (University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. Can Religious Proselytizers Be Epistemically Harmed? – Jaclyn Rekis
Biography of the authors
Product details
| Published | Mar 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350578494 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Expanding Philosophy of Religion |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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