Prof Tina Beattie

Job Title: Professor Qualifications: PhD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3419 Email Address: T.Beattie@roehampton.ac.uk

Personal Profile and Research Interests

Tina Beattie's main areas of teaching and research are in Christian ethics, theologies and theories of gender, 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 in 2010. 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. Radio appearances include BBC Radio 4 (Start the Week, Beyond Belief, Something Understood, Woman's Hour, the Moral Maze), Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Undergraduate Teaching Interests

• Debates and dialogues in contemporary Catholicism

• Theology, art and culture

• Religion, reason and revelation

• Christian ethics

Postgraduate Teaching Interests

• Programme Convenor for MA in Religion and Human Rights

• Current doctoral supervision is in the areas of ecclesiology and ministry, Marian iconography, Black Madonnas

Selected Bibliography

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

Books and Contributions to Books

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

'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).

Journal articles include:

'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

Membership of Organisations

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

Research Projects 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.

Qualification Details

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

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Theology & Religious Studies
Human Rights

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Religion and Human Rights