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Feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. This is a collection of consistently high quality essays which open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts.

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Having enjoyed more than a decade of lively critique and creativity, feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing critically to the rich traditions in philosophy of religion. The twenty contributors open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts in the field: the old models of human and divine will no longer ´simply do´! A lively current debate develops in re-imagining and revaluing transcendence in terms of body, space and self-other relations.

This collection is an excellent source for courses in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics and literature, Continental and analytical philosophy of religion, engaging with a range of religions and philosophers including Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas, Irigaray, Bourdieu, Kristeva, Le Doeuff, bell hooks and Jantzen.

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Introduction. Section I - Contestations: Concepts and Practices. 1. Feminists and Fools: Imagination and Philosophy of Religion; Marije Altorf.- 2. Rethinking the ´Problem of Evil´ with Arendt and Jantzen; Morny Joy.- 3. Horizons and Limitations in Muslim Feminist Hermeneutics: Reflections on the Menstruation Verse; Shuruq Naguib.- 4. Is Unconditional Forgiveness Ever Just? Anca Gheaus.- 5. Simone Weil´s Social Philosophy: Toward A Post-Colonial Ethic; Inese Radzins.- 6. Bargaining with Spiritual Patriarchy: The Women in Shas Movement in Israel; Henriette Dahan Kalev.- 7. Temptress on the Path: Women as Objects and Subjects in Buddhist Jataka Stories; Naomi Appleton.- 8. Is Literature Any Help in Liberating Eve and Mary?; Dorota Filipczak.- 9. The Abandoned Fiancée, or Against Subjection; Daniel Whistler.- 10. Kant and the Present; Daphne Hampson.- Section II - Transcendence Incarnate: Space, Self and Other. 11. The Lived Body, Gender and Confidence; Pamela Sue Anderson.- 12. A Defence of Female Genius: Maude Royden and Passionate Celibacy; Alison Jasper.- 13. Becoming the Goddess: Female Subjectivity and the Passion of the Goddess Radha; Jessica Frazier.- 14. Bodies in Space: Transcendence and the Spatialization of Gender; Roxana Baiasu.- 15. The Unfolding of Our Lives with Others: Heidegger and Medieval Mysticism; Ben Morgan.- 16. Beauvoir and the Transcendence of Natality; Alison Martin.- 17. The Body as Site of Continuity and Change; Paul Fiddes.- 18. The Problem of Transcendence in Irigaray´s Philosophy of Sexual Difference; Patrice Haynes.- 19. An Ethics of the In-between: A Condition of Possibility for Being and Living Together; Anne-Claire Mulder.- 20. Creating a Space for Practical Wisdom: The Dance of Transcendence Incarnate; Laurie Anderson-Sathe.

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