Professor Douglas Pratt
- Team Leader, East, South, South-East Asia and Oceania
- Section Editor, China, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania
Honorary Professor, Theological and Religious Studies Programme, School of Humanities, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
BA (Auck & Waikato), MA (Auck), BD (Otago), LTh (Hons) (NZ), PhD (St Andrews), DTheol (MCD)
Douglas Pratt is the New Zealand Associate of the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific and an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was Visiting Lecturer in Christian–Muslim Relations at the University of Birmingham, UK (2004) and a Visiting Honorary Research Fellow and Guest Lecturer in Issues in Interfaith Relations at Ripon College Cuddesdon and the University of Oxford (2005-6). He was also Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC (2010), and Visiting Professor in Systematic and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland (2011).
An ordained Anglican priest and Canon Theologian Emeritus of the Waikato Diocese in New Zealand, Dr Pratt was honoured by the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) in 2007 with an inaugural Harmony Award for meritorious service to the Muslim community. He has twice chaired the National Interfaith Forum of New Zealand.
Most recent sole-authored book – Being Open, Being Faithful: The Journey of Interreligious Dialogue (2014).
Other published works include – The Church and Other Faiths: The World Council of Churches, the Vatican and Interreligious Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2010); The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue (2005). He has co-authored with Gary Bouma (Uni. of Monash) and Rod Ling (Uni. of Manchester) Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: National Case Studies (2010).
Recent edited books – (with Virginie Andre) Religious Citizenships and Islamophobia (2016); (with John Hoover, John Davies and John Chesworth) The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas (2015); (with Angela Berlis) From Encounter to Commitment: Interreligious Experience and Theological Engagement (2015); Interreligious Engagement and Theological Reflection: Ecumenical Explorations (2014); and (with David Cheetham and David Thomas) Understanding Interreligious Relations (2013).
Dr Alan M. Guenther
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, South Asia
A period spent in Pakistan as a missionary sparked his interest in the history of Islam, and on his return to Canada he completed MA and PhD study at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. His research interests include the development of Muslim society in modern South Asia, and the history of Christian-Muslim relations in that region as well as globally. Alan also studies the historical rise of the non-Western Christian Church and its intersection with Western missionary efforts and colonialism.
Dr Gordon Nickel
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, South Asia
Dr Nickel is an independent Christian scholar. Gordon Nickel's research looks at the interaction between Islam and the Gospel, specifically the Qur’an and the New Testament. His PhD focused on the narratives of tampering in the earliest commentaries of the Qur’an. He is adjunct professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Calgary and Director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore.
Dr Charles M. Ramsey
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, South Asia
Dr Ramsey (PhD, University of Birmingham), Non-resident Fellow, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA.
Dr Ramsey teaches World Religions and Islamic Studies at Baylor University. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Religion and Public Policy at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, and has been awarded grants from the British Library, United States Institute of Peace, and the American Institute for Pakistan Studies. He is the editor with Clinton Bennett of South Asian Sufis: Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny; and translator with Christian W. Troll of Sir Sayyid’s Commentary of the Gospel: Tabyīn al-kalām; and author of the forthcoming monograph God’s Word, Spoken and Otherwise (Leiden: Brill).
Professor Peter Riddell
- CMR 1900 project
- Section Editor, South-East Asia
Senior Research Fellow of the Australian College of Theology; Professor Emeritus of the London School of Theology.
Peter Riddell previously taught at the Australian National University, the Institut Pertanian Bogor (Indonesia), SOAS and the London School of Theology, where he served as Professor of Islamic Studies. He was invited as visiting fellow at L’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes/Sorbonne (Paris) in May/June, 2015. He has published widely on the study of Southeast Asia, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. His books include Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (London, Hawaii, and Singapore, 2001); Islam in Context (with Peter Cotterell, Grand Rapids and Leicester, 2003); and Christians and Muslims (Leicester, 2004). Among his edited volumes are Islam and Christianity on the Edge: Talking Points in Christian-Muslim Relations into the 21st Century (with John Azumah, Melbourne, 2013); and Islam and the Last Day: Christian Perspectives on Islamic Eschatology (with Brent Neely, Melbourne, 2014).