ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins by exploring how intersectionality affects the practice of philosophy of religion, which is obviously related to the issue of narrowness of perspectives. It explores the possibility that animals might share human awareness of the divine. The book describes a particular and oft-ignored kind of religious experience: olfaction. It offers a Jewish perspective on ‘divine reversals’: cases in which God appears to take the side of ‘the enemy’ in response to injustices committed against them. The book reviews several arguments for animal universalism, the thesis that all animals with interests will receive eternal, infinitely good afterlives. Since providing animals with eternal, infinitely good afterlives would benefit them, God is obligated to save them from death and bring them to heaven.
