ABSTRACT
The recently emerging field of feminist philosophy of religion often appeals to continental philosophy, yet perhaps without sufficiently altering philosophy of religion's stated aims and intentions. Like traditional Anglo-American philosophies of religion, Pamela Sue Anderson's A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (1998), for example, focuses on belief and its justification, arguing that gender must become a crucial analytic category within accounts of the process of justification and, more centrally, that philosophical arguments grounded in feminist concerns must not only justify, but also evaluate, belief and its constitution. Grace Jantzen, in Becoming Divine: Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Religion (1999), moves further from Anglo-American analytic philosophy of religion, claiming that feminist philosophy of religion has different aims from 'traditional' Anglo-American philosophy of religion ('becoming divine' rather than the justification of belief), yet she also focuses her attention on 'religious discourse and the symbolic of which it is a part'. Again, the goal of feminist philosophy of religion is less to justify or to argue for the truth or falsity of these beliefs than to 'restructur[e] that myth in ways that foster human dignity - perhaps in ways that oblige and enable us to become divine' (Jantzen, 1999, p. 22). Hence questions of justification give place to questions of moral or political adequacy.
