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Throughout the text, I frame intersectionality through the kaleidoscope of these cognitive tools, from the simplicity of a metaphor, through the utility of a heuristic device, to the structured nature of paradigmatic thinking that guides a field of study, to the I possibility i of an explanatory social theory that engages the issues that most concern scholars and practitioners of intersectionality. The journey of intersectionality in Collins's thought - from the moment she first described intersecting systems of oppressions as intersectionality up to this latest project of critical social theory - has been long. Here, I would like to explore how intersectionality might influence debates in the sociology of religion and conversely, how the sociology of religion might influence intersectionality. Just as the ideas of intersectionality are interconnected and find new meaning in intersectionality's metaphoric meeting place as an exchange of ideas, so too do the distinctive views of people who are sufficiently grounded within intersectionality contribute to its critical ethos by offering critical analyses of their own. Furseth extends this question to explore the border space between intersectionality and the sociology of religion for a possible route to examine how ethics might inform intersectionality's development as a critical social theory. [Extracted from the article]