Doctoral researcher profiles in Theology and Religion

PhD title: Pentecostal Theology and Embodiment
Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Kidwell and Professor Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Analysing and Summarizing the Recent Approaches to Reread the Qurʾān by Muḥammad Shaḥrūr and ʿAdnān al-Rifāʿī
Supervisor: Professor Oliver Scharbrodt
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title:  Quakers and Mental Health: The Inward Light in a secular setting
Supervisor:  Professor Ben Pink Dandelion, Dr Rebecca Wynter, Professor Lisa Bortolotti
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: A Historical Data Digital Toolkit – New ways of exploring large catalogues and indexes to 19c archival collections, focusing on the social networks amongst Quakers and others who contributed to the discipline of anthropology in Britain 1830 -1870.
Supervisors:  Professor Ben Pink Dandelion and Dr Catherine Smith
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: How does the Concept of a Militarised Endeavour Shed Light on the Spiritual Philosophy of Greater Jihad in Islam? A Shia Exegesis.
Supervisors: Professor Oliver Scharbrodt and Dr Yafa Shanneik
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: The Occupations of Quakers in the 18th Century and their Interaction with the Wider Economy, Including a Case Study of the Iron Industry
Supervisor: Ben Pink Dandelion
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Applying Bruno Latour’s Theory of the Actors to Theology: an Experiment in Theology of the Network for the Digital Age
Supervisors: Dr Jeremy H. Kidwell and Professor David Cheetham
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Fuego Libertador: Towards a Liberative Decolonizing Pentecostal Pneumatology
Supervisors: Dr Daniela Augustine and Dr Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: The Role of Pentecostal Altar Space in Engagement with God
Supervisor:  Professor Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Changing legal affiliation in Mamlūk Egypt and Syria From 1150 – 1517
Supervisor: Professor Oliver Scharbrodt
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title:  ‘Adoption is not prohibited in Islam, it is misunderstood.’
Supervisor: Dr Katherine E. Brown
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Foolish Wisdom: Rediscovering the Parable of the Ten Virgins
Supervisors: Professor Candida Moss and Professor Charlotte Hempel
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title: Quaker understanding of non-human animals: insights from a Wittgensteinian analysis
Supervisor: Dr Rhiannon Grant
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Religious Epistemology
Supervisors: Professor David Cheetham and Professor Yujin Nagasawa
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title:  Studies in African Christianity focusing on the development and growth of African Quakerism
Supervisors: Professor Ben Pink Dandelion and Professor Francis Davis
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title: Searching for God in popular music: the hidden divine spirit in the Icelandic post rock band - Sigur Rós
Supervisor: Professor David Cheetham
Home country: Hong Kong
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: A critical examination of the sexual and religious lives of bisexual+ Church of England 18- to 25-year-olds
Supervisors: Dr Karen Wenell and Dr Sarah Hall
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Queer Freedom? Mystagogic Encounters of Poststructural Christian Spiritual Transformations in LGBTQ Persons
Supervisors: Deryn Guest (primary); Ben Pink Dandelion (secondary) 
Home country: Canada
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Does the use of Selection Criteria aid or hinder human intuition in the Discernment process? The Development and Use of Selection Criteria in the Church of England and how this might inform Ecclesiological Praxis in Assessment of Candidates.
Supervisors: Dr Amy Daughton
Practical Theology Doctorate

PhD title: The Temple Scroll: A Comprehensive Literary and Material Analysis
Supervisors: Professor Charlotte Hempel and Dr Cat Quine
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title: Decolonizing Missions in Postcolonial Luba-Heartland of Central Africa: Recovering the Voices of the Voiceless
Supervisors: Dr Daniela C. Augustine, Professor Allan Anderson and Professor Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Innocuous Alterity: The Representation of Sri Lanka in Medieval Islam
Supervisors: Professor Oliver Scharbrodt and Dr Sophia Vasalou
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title: Ministers’ Lived Experience of the Reasons for Suffering and Evil
Supervisor: Dr Amy Daughton and Dr Martin Pickup
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: An examination of whether exposure to Quaker values at school affects adult character
Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Anne Watson
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: Theological Anthropology from the intersection between Pentecostalism and Eastern Orthodoxy for a South Asian Buddhist context
Supervisors: Dr Daniela Augustine (80%); Professor Wolfgang Vondey (20%)
PhD Theology and Religion

 

PhD title: A Pentecostal Theological Approach to Atonement for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Supervisor: Professor Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: The Function of Metaphor in the Depictions of Disability in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Supervisors: Professor Charlotte Hempel, Professor Candida Moss and Professor Jeannette Littlemore
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD title: The Death Positive Movement
Supervisors: Dr Rhiannon Grant and Dr Andrew Davies
PhD Theology and Religion