ABSTRACT
While feminist theology has flourished since the 1970s, it is something of a marginalized enclave in feminist theory, which is largely secular, if not thoroughly anti-religious, in outlook. While feminist theology gained serious traction in the academy from the 1970s on, the standard preoccupation revolved around questioning and reconfiguring Christian doctrines. By complicating notions of truth and rationality, feminist philosophy of religion can create illuminating pathways through the issues generated by religious diversity. Indeed, incorporating developments in feminist epistemology into philosophy of religion is an important way in which this sphere may be transformed by feminist perspectives. Insofar as feminist philosophy of religion is feminist it is at once a form of social criticism - its theoretical reasoning strives to connect with collective efforts to overcome the devaluing of women by patriarchal socio-cultural orders. Religious realists who maintain that ultimate sacred reality is objectively real may worry that Marx undermines religious truths by anthropologizing or naturalizing them.
