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Professor Theology & Religious Studies Programme Convener MA Religion & Human Rights

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3419
Email : T.Beattie@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Humanities
Office location : Howard 214

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Bristol, Theology, 1998

About

Tina Beattie is the Director of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies at Roehampton University. Her main areas of teaching and research are in Christian ethics, theologies and theories of gender, theology and the arts, and religion and human rights. Her doctoral research was on the theology and symbolism of the Virgin Mary, drawing on the psycholinguistic theory of Luce Irigaray as a resource for the analysis of Christian writings on Mary and Eve in the early Church and in recent Roman Catholic theology. Her thesis formed the basis of her book, God's Mother, Eve's Advocate (2002), and these ideas are further developed in New Catholic Feminism: Theology and Theory (Routledge 2006). She is currently working on a book, Nature, God and Gender after Postmodernity, to be published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book is The New Atheists (Darton, Longman & Todd 2007). 

Tina is a regular contributor to The Tablet and to the online journal Open Democracy. Television and radio appearances include BBC1, BBC2, Sky 
News and Al Jazeera, Radio 4 (Start the Week, Beyond Belief, Something Understood,Sunday Worship, Woman's Hour,the Moral Maze), Australian Broadcasting 
Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and RTE (Ireland). 

Tina is a member of CAFOD's Theological Advisory Group, and she is often asked to give lectures and run workshops for parishes, religious communities and 
interfaith groups.

Research Interests

Gender and symbolism in Roman Catholic theology, with a particular emphasis on Marian theology;Natural law, human rights and women's rights - perspectives from theology, philosophy and critical theory;Christian ethics;Feminism and gender theory

Research Project Undertaken

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, September 2004 to February 2005, researching gender, theology and feminist theory for Routledge book. 

AHRC research leave, January to May 2008, researching women's rights and natural law.

Membership of Professional Bodies

FRSA 
Former President, Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain 
Member of the Society for the Study of Theology 
Member of European Theology Society 
Member of the American Academy of Religion 
Member of the Bioethics Subcommittee, 
National Board of Catholic Women 
Trustee, Sarum College 
Trustee, the Centre for Marian Studies 
Director, the Tablet

Teaching Interests

  • Religion and Human Rights
  • Theology, Art and Culture
  • Mysticism and Spirituality
  • Christian Ethics
  • Convenor of MA in Contemporary Catholic Studies - commencing September 2011
  • Current doctoral supervision is in the areas of ecclesiology and ministry,feminist theology, Black Madonnas, the homosexual person and the magisterium, the Bible in African churches, Catholic social teaching and development studies

Publications

Nature, God and Gender after 
Postmodernity
 (Oxford and New York: 
Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

'From Ethics to Eschatology: the 

Continuing Validity of the New Eve for 
Christian Doctrine and Discipleship' in 
Rob McSwain et al (eds) Theology, 
Aesthetics and Culture
(Oxford: Oxford 
University Press, forthcoming)

'The Touch that Goes Beyond Touching': a 

reflection on the touching of Mary of 
Magdala in Theology and Art' in Reimund 
Bieringer, Barbara Baert and Karlin 
Demasure (eds) Noli me tangere: New 
interdisciplinary perspectives

Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum 
Lovaniensium (Leuven, Paris, Dudly MA: 
Peeters, forthcoming) 

Entries on the Virgin Mary, the 

Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, 
Human Rights, Abortion in David 
Fergusson, Karen Kilby, Ian McFarland and 
Iain Torrance (eds) The Cambridge 
Dictionary of Christian Theology
 
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 
2011)

'The End of Woman: Gender, God and Rights 

Beyond Modernity' in Patrick Claffey and 
Joseph Egan (eds)Movement or Moment?: 
Assessing Liberation Theology Forty Years 
after Medellin
 (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, 
Bruxelles, Franfurt am Main, News York, 
Wien: Peter Lang)

'From Rosaries to Rights - Towards an 

Integrated Catholicism' in Bernard 
Hoose,Julie Clague and Gerard Mannion 
(eds) Moral Theology for the Twenty- 
First Century: Essays in Celebration of 
Kevin Kelly
 (London and New York: 
Continuum,2008)

'Vision and Vulnerabilty: the 

significance of sacramentality and the 
woman priest for feminist theology' in 
Natalie Watson and Stephen Burns (eds) 
Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour 
of Ann Loades
 (London:SPCK, 2008) 

The New Atheists: The Twilight of 

Reason and the War on Religion 
(London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2007)

'Queen of Heaven' in Gerard Loughlin 

(ed.), Queer Theology: New 
Perspectives on Sex and Gender
 
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2007).
'Mary in Patristic Theology' in Sarah 
Jane Boss (ed.), Mary: The Complete 
Resource
 (London and New York: 
Continuum, 2007).

'Mary the Mother of Jesus' and 'The 

Immaculate Conception' in The 
Encyclopedia of Religion and Gender
 
(New York: Macmillan Reference, 2007).

New Catholic Feminism: Theology and 

Theory (London: Routledge, 2006)

‘Gender and Religion: Gender and 

Christianity’ ‘Feminist Theology: 
Christian Feminist Theology’, ‘Mary: 
Feminist Perspectives’ in The 
Encyclopedia of Religion
, 2nd edn, 
(New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005).

'Mary’ and ‘The Motherhood of God’ in 

Philip Sheldrake (ed.), Dictionary of 
Spirituality
 (London: SCM Press 
Dictionary of Spirituality, 2005) 

‘Mary’ in John Bowden (ed.), 

Christianity: A Complete Guide 
2(London and New York: Continuum, 2005)

Co-editor with Ursula King, Gender, 

Religion and Diversity (London and 
New York: Continuum, 2004)

'A Roman Catholic's View on the 

Apostolicity of Women' in Harriet Harris 
and Jane Shaw (eds.), The Call for 
Women Bishops
 (London: SPCK, 2004)

Woman, New Century Theology Series 

(London and New York: Continuum, 2003)

'Redeeming Mary: The Potential of Marian 

Symbolism for Feminist Philosophy of 
Religion’ in Pamela Sue Anderson and 
Beverley Clack (eds.), Feminist 
Philosophy of Religion: Critical 
Readings
 (London: Routledge, 2003)

God’s Mother, Eve’s Advocate: A Marian 

Narrative of Women’s Salvation 
(London and New York: Continuum, 2002).

Eve’s Pilgrimage: A Woman’s Quest for 

the City of God (London and New York: 
Burns & Oates/Continuum, 2002)

Entries on Luce Irigaray and Julia 

Kristeva in John Sawyer and Seumas 
Simpson (eds.), Concise Encyclopedia 
of Language and Religion
 (Oxford: 
Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001
‘Etty Hillesum: A Thinking Heart in a 
Darkened World’ in Ursula King with Tina 
Beattie (eds.), Spirituality and 
Society in the New Millennium
 
(Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2001): 

247-58 

A Culture of Life: Women’s Theology 

and Social Liberation (London: CIIR, 
2000)

‘Global Sisterhood or Wicked Stepsisters: 

Why Aren’t Girls with God Mothers Invited 
to the Ball?’ in Deborah Sawyer and Diane 
Collier (eds.), Is there a Future for 
Feminist Theology?
 (Sheffield: 
Sheffield Academic Press, 1999): 115-25

‘Carnal Love and Spiritual Imagination: 

Can Luce Irigaray and John Paul II Come 
Together?’ in Jon Davies and Gerard 
Loughlin(eds.), Sex These Days: Essays 
on Theology, Sexuality and Society
 
(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press222, 
1997): 160-83

‘Sexuality and the Resurrection of the 

Body: Reflections in a Hall of Mirrors’ 
in Gavin D’Costa (ed.), Resurrection 
Reconsidered
 (Oxford: Oneworld 
Publications, 1996): 135-49

Rediscovering Mary: Insights from the 

Gospels (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & 
Oates; New York: Ligouri Publications; 
Sydney: HarperCollins, 1995).
'Sacramentality, Incarnation and Gender: 
a proposal for an integrated theology as 
a criticism of Hans Urs von Balthasar', 
ET - Bulletin of the European Society 
for Catholic Theology 
, Vol. 19, No. 
1 (2008): pp. 128-35

'"Justice enacted not these human laws" 

(Antigone): Religion, Natural Law and 
Women's Rights', Religion and Human 
Rights
, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2008: pp. 249- 
67

'Earth, Wind and Fire: Fenwick Lawson's 

Art', Art & Christianity, No. 57, 
Spring 2009.

'Humanae Vitae: nature, sex and 

reason in conflict', The Pastoral 
Review
, July 2008.

'Insight beyond Sight: Sacramentality and 

the Eucharist in the Isenheim Altarpiece' 
in New Blackfriars, Vol. 88.1013, 
2007: 67-72
'Religious Reflections on the Death 
Penalty', review essay in Human Rights 

and Religion, Vol. 1.1, 2006: 101-103 

‘The Baptism of Eros’ in Theology and 

Sexuality, Vol. 9.2, 2003/2: 167-179

‘Theological Reflections: Corporeality 

and Mysticism’ in Regina Ammicht-Quinn 
and Elsa Tamez (eds.), Body and 
Religion
, Concilium, 2002/2, 66-75
‘Mary, Eve and the Church: Towards a New 
Ecclesiology’ in Maria: A Journal of 
Marian Studies
, February 2001: 5-20

‘The Sacramental Body: Symbols of a 

Gendered Church’ in The Way 
Supplement: Refounding: Church and 
Spirituality
, 2001/101: 73-87

‘The Magnificat of the Redeemed Woman’ in 

New Blackfriars, Vol. 80, No. 944, 
October 1999: 443-50

‘“Woman Full and Overflowing with 

Grace”3: the Virgin Mary and the 
Contemporary Church’ in The Way 
Supplement: Where Now? Women’s 
Spirituality after the Ecumenical Decade, 
1998/93
: 54-65
‘A Man and Three Women - Hans, Adrienne, 
Mary and Luce’ in New Blackfriars
Vol. 79, No. 924, February 1998: 97-105

‘A Discipleship of Love: Mary of Bethany 

and the Ministry of Women’ in The Month, 
May 1997: 171-750

‘Mary, the Virgin Priest?’ in The 

Month, December 1996: 485-93

Also, regular contributions to The 

Tablet and the online journal Open 
Democracy