VOICES FROM THE EDGE OSAT C

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.