Ursula King
Address / Affiliation
1 Salisbury Road
Redland
Bristol BS6 7AL
England
Tel. 44+117 942 9158
Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol;
Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Religions Research, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Email
uking@blueyonder.co.uk
Areas of Specialization
Feminist and gender studies in religion; the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Areas of Interest
  • Comparative studies in spirituality
  • Method and theory in the study of religions
  • Indian religions, especially modern Hinduism
  • Dialogue approaches(women and interfaith dialogue; religion and science dialogue; religion and human rights).
Major Relevant Publications
Ursula King and Tina Beattie (eds), Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, London and New York: Continuum, 2005
Ursula King (ed), Religion and Gender, Oxford and Cambridgem, USA: Blackwell, 1995
Ursula King, Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise, London: Macmillan, 1993 (2nd ed)
Ursula King, "Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks," in The Blackwell Companion to Gender History, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Teresa Meade eds., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004
Other Information of Interest
Consultant on Gender and Religion entries in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. L. Jones, Thomson and Gale (contributed several entries), 2002-2005
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