Epistemic Injustice and Religious Identity

Gilles Beauchamp is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (UQAM) in the Department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.Michelle Panchuk is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Murray State University, USA.Maëlle Turbide is a Ph.D. candidate in practical philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.

• Introduction: Power, Knowledge, and Ignorance in the Religious Domain – Gilles Beauchamp (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), Michelle Panchuk (Murray State University, USA), and Maëlle Turbide (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Section 1: Epistemic Injustice in the Academic Study of Religion 1. The Concept of Religion as a Tool of Hermeneutical Colonization – David C. Spewak (Marion Military Institute, USA) 2. Contributory Justice for African Traditional Religion in the Philosophy of Religion – Kirk Lougheed (LLC International University, Lithuania) 3. Theologies of Religions, the Race-Religion Nexus, and the Problem of Ignorance – Marianne Moyaert (KU Leuven, Belgium) Section 2: Epistemic Injustice in the Religious Beliefs and Practices 4. Who Gets Suffering? Theodicy as Gaslighting – Blake Hereth (Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, USA) and Michelle Panchuk (Murray State University, USA) 5. The Problem of Revelatory Evil – Mike Ashfield (Utah State University, USA) and Taylor-Grey Miller (Brigham Young University, USA) 6. Faith-Shaking Trauma, Theodical Logic, and the Abuse of Meaning – Amber Griffioen7. Feminist Midrash: a Challenge to Epistemic Injustice – Hanna Houdayer (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Section 3: Epistemic Injustice and Religion in Secular Society 8. Vandalization of a World-Picture: Religious Offense and Hermeneutical Injustice – Mehdi Ebrahimpour (Independent Scholar) 9. Whose Freedom of Conscience Should Laicity Protect? Quebec’s Laicity Law and Religious Ignoring – Gilles Beauchamp (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) 10. Democratic Deliberation, Religious Restraint and Epistemic Injustice – A. Sophie Lauwers (KU Leuven, Belgium) 11. Epistemic Injustice in the Religious Education Classroom, A Case from the Norwegian Upper Secondary School – Lina Snoek Hauan (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway) 12. Religious Minorities in the News During the Quebec Crisis of Reasonable Accommodations: A Case of Testimonial Domination – Maëlle Turbide (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) 13. Epistemic Negligence in Australia’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Media Discourse – Louise Richardson-Self and Sharri Lembryk (University of Tasmania, Australia) 14. Can Religious Proselytizers Be Epistemically Harmed? – Jaclyn Rekis Biography of the authors