CURRICULUMVITAE
DAVIDCHEETHAM
HeadofDepartmentandSeniorLecturer,DepartmentofTheologyandReligion,School
ofPhilosophy,TheologyandReligion,UniversityofBirmingham,ERIBuilding,
PritchattsRoad,Edgbaston,Birmingham,B152TT,UK. Tel:+44(0)1214158335
DateofBirth:11thFebruary,1969;Nationality:British.
Email:[email protected] Education
1981‐1987
JohnHampdenGrammarSchool,
HighWycombe,
Bucks,HP111SZ,UK
1987‐1993
UniversityofWales,
Lampeter,
Ceredigion,Wales,SA487ED,UK.
1990B.A.(Hons)Theology
1991 M.A. EschatologyinWesternThought 1993 Ph.D. JohnHick’sPhilosophyofReligion
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CurrentPosition(s)
HeadofDepartmentofTheologyandReligion(since2012),Co‐DirectorofJohnHick
CentreforPhilosophyofReligion(since2011),SeniorLecturerinTheologyandInter‐
religiousRelations(since2007),UniversityofBirmingham,UK.
PreviousPositions
1999‐2007Lecturer,DepartmentofTheologyandReligion,Universityof
Birmingham,UK
1996‐99
Lecturer,DepartmentofTheology,NewmanUniversityCollege,UK.
1995‐96
LecturerinReligion,UniversityofWorcester,UK
July‐December,1993;March‐July,1994
ResearchAssistant,Departmentof
Theology,UniversityofGlasgow,UK.
AcademicResearchInterests
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TheologyofReligionsandContemporaryTheology
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Inter‐religiousandComparativeStudies
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PhilosophyofReligion
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ReligionandAesthetics
Teaching
Undergraduate
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ContemporaryChristianity(LevelC)
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ParadigmsofBelief(LevelI)
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ProblemsofReligiousDiversity(LevelH)
Postgraduate
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ClassicProblemsinthePhilosophyofReligion
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ProblemsofReligiousDiversity(MLevel)
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TheologicalMethods
Books
WaysofMeetingandtheTheologyofReligions(BurlingtonandFarnham:Ashgate2013),
224pp.
UnderstandingInterreligiousRelations,editedwithD.Pratt&D.Thomas(Oxford:Oxford
UniversityPress,2013),448pp.
InterculturalTheology,editedwithMarkCartledge,(London:SCMPress,2011),193pp.
InterreligiousHermeneuticsinPluralisticEurope,editedwithO.Leirvik,U.WinklerandJ.
Gruber(Amsterdam:Rodopi,2011),449pp.
ContemporaryPracticeandMethodinthePhilosophyofReligion:NewEssays,editedwith
RolfeKing,(NewYorkandLondon:Continuum,2008),225pp.
WhatMakesaGoodCity?(UniversityofBirmingham,2007)[Editedcollectionofpapers
fortheMidlandsFaithsfortheCityeventheldintheGreatHall,Universityof
Birmingham,Sept.11th2007.]
JohnHick(BurlingtonandAldershot:Ashgate,2003),189pp.
ArticlesandBookChapters
‘JohnHick,AuthenticRelationshipsandHell’,Sophia,Vol.33,No.1,March,1994,pp.33‐
45.
‘ReligiousSurveying:CommonalityBetweenReligiousTraditions’,ScottishJournalof
ReligiousStudies,Autumn1995,pp.103‐116.
‘PulpFiction,theLoveofGodandanAuthenticWorld’,ModernBelieving,Vol.XXXVII,
No.3,July,1996,pp.31‐38.
‘EvilandReligiousPluralism:TheEschatologicalResolution’,NewBlackfriars,Vol.78,
No.915,May,1997,208‐218.
‘HellasPotentiallyTemporal’,TheExpositoryTimes,Vol.108,No.9,June,1997,pp.260‐
63.
‘ReligiousPassionandthePluralistTheologyofReligions’,NewBlackfriars,Vol.79,
No.926,May,1998,pp.229‐240
‘TheBibleandMusic:APedagogicalDevice’,ScriptureBulletin,Vol.XXVIII,No.2,July,
1998,pp.59‐69.
‘PostmodernFreedomandReligion’,Theology,Vol.CIII,No.811,January/February,
2000,pp.28‐36.
[ReviewArticle]‘G.D’Costa,TheMeetingofReligionsandtheTrinity’WorldFaiths
Encounter,2002
Inter‐religiousDialogueandtheSikhReligion,(SardarniKailashKaurMemorial
Lecture),Pamphlet.Patiala:PunjabiUniversityPress,2002.Re‐publishedinTheSikh
Review,Vol.52/2,No.602,February,2004.
‘Sikhismus:II.Missionswissenschaftlich’,inReligioninGeschichteundGegenwart,Vol.8,
Tubingen:MohrSeibeck,2005.
‘TheUniversityandInterfaithEducation’forStudiesinInter‐religiousDialogue,Vol.15,
Issue1,2005.pp.16‐35
‘TheOther:HindusandBuddhists’;CambridgeHistoryofChristianity1914‐2000Vol.9,
Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006,pp.502‐507.
‘TheOther:TheologiesofReligions’CambridgeHistoryofChristianity1914‐2000,Vol.9,
Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006,pp.508‐13.
‘TheRoleofTheologyandReligioninPublicDiscourse’,inV.Mortensen,ed.,Religion
andSociety:Cross‐disciplinaryEuropeanPerspectives,Aarhus:Univers,2006,pp.35‐47.
‘LiberalPluralism,RadicalOrthodoxyandtheRightToneofVoice’forSophia45/2,
October,2006,pp.81‐97.
‘TheEncounterbetweenfaithsandan“AestheticAttitude”’forTheHeythropJournal
XLVIII,January,2007,pp.29‐47.
‘TheGlobalEthic:CritiqueandContributionofPost‐secularTheology’Islamand
Christian‐MuslimRelations,18/1,January,2007,pp.19‐32.
‘Post‐secularTheology’,[translatedintoChinese]inSecularisationandReligionisation
inEuropeandEastAsia:AComparison,UniversityofWuhan,China,May,2007,pp.68‐
81.
‘Editors’Introduction’inD.CheethamandR.King,eds,ContemporaryPracticeand
MethodinthePhilosophyofReligion,London:Continuum,2008,pp.1‐15.
‘ComparativePhilosophyofReligion’inD.CheethamandR.King,eds,Contemporary
PracticeandMethodinthePhilosophyofReligion,London:Continuum,2008,pp.101‐
117.
‘AestheticsandtheMeetingofReligions’[trans.intoChinese]BulletinofTheologyand
Aesthetics,UniversityofXiangfan,China,July,2007,pp.46‐62.
‘JohnHick’inI.Markham,(ed.)BlackwellEncyclopaediaofTheologiansVol.2,Oxford:
Blackwells,2008,pp.294‐311.
‘Inclusivisms’inA.Race,P.Hedges,eds.,ChristianApproachestoOtherFaiths,London:
SCMPress,2008,pp.63‐84.
‘Inclusivisms–introductorypreface’inA.Race,P.Hedges,eds.,ChristianApproachesto
OtherFaiths:AReader,London:SCMPress,2009,pp.22‐32.
‘ExploringtheAesthetic“Space”forInterreligiousEncounter’,Exchange:Journalof
MissiologicalandEcumenicalResearch,39/1,2010,pp.71‐86.
‘ScripturalReasoning:Textsand/orTents?’,IslamandChristian‐MuslimRelations,21/3,
Oct.2010,pp.343‐56.
[2pieces]‘ContextualTheology’;‘ComparativeTheology’forG.T.Kurian,ed.,
EncyclopaediaofChristianCivilisation,Oxford:WileyBlackwell,2011.
‘Introduction’inD.Cheetham&M.Cartledge,eds.,InterculturalTheology,London:SCM
Press,2011,pp.1‐10.
‘InterculturalTheologyandInter‐religiousStudies’inD.Cheetham&M.Cartledge,eds.,
InterculturalTheology,London:SCMPress,2011,pp.43‐61.
‘Preface’;inD.Cheetham,O.Leirvik,U.Winkler,eds.,InterreligiousHermeneuticsin
PluralisticEurope,Amsterdam:RodopiPress,2011,pp.vii‐x
‘Obituary:JohnHick’ReligiousStudies,48/3,2012,pp.277‐79
‘Introduction’(withD.PrattandD.Thomas)inUnderstandingInter‐religiousRelations,
Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2013,pp.1‐13.
‘ReligionandtheReligiousOther’inUnderstandingInter‐religiousRelations,Oxford:
OxfordUniversityPress,2013,pp.15‐36
‘TheFutureofEngagement:EmergingContextsandTrends’(withD.PrattandD.
Thomas)inUnderstandingInter‐religiousRelations,Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,
2013,pp.390‐401.
‘ScripturalReasoningasa“Classic”:theAestheticsofInterreligiousPolitics’Islamand
Christian‐MuslimRelations,24/3,July,2013,pp.1‐14.
‘Foreward’inS.Torr,ADramaticPentecostal/CharismaticAnti‐theodicy:Improvisingon
aDivinePerformanceofLament,Eugene:WipfandStockPublishing,2013,pp.ix‐xi
4pieces]‘TheologyofReligions’;‘Pluralism’;‘Exclusivism’;‘Inclusivism’forNew
WestminsterDictionaryofChristianTheologyeditedbyB.A.Gerrish&DDeVries
[forthcoming].
BookReviews
Ihavepublishedc.40bookreviewsinthefollowingjournals:ScriptureBulletin,Reviews
inReligionandTheology,WorldFaithsEncounter,JournalofBeliefsandValues,Islamand
Christian‐MuslimRelations,TheologicalBookReview,Inter‐religiousInsight,Journalof
ContemporaryReligion.
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AcademicGrants
Overseas Conference Grant. School of Historical Studies, University of Birmingham to
attendaconferenceinChina(April,2006).
£700
ConferenceGrant.HibbertTrustfortheEuropeanSocietyforInterculturalTheologyand
InterreligiousStudiesconferenceheldinBirmingham(May,2006).
£1500
Co‐applicantforEuropeanScienceFoundationgrantfor‘PluralisminEurope’Symposiumheldin
Aarhus,Denmark(May,2006)
EU14,000
BritishAcademyAcademicTravelAward.ConferencevisittoChina(June,2006)
£600
BritishAcademyConferenceGrant(Oct.2006) £2000
SpaldingTrustconferenceSmallResearchGrantforheldinBirmingham(Feb.2007)
£1500
(Lead Applicant with Prof. Yujin Nagasawa) William Paton Fund to support Non‐
western visiting fellowships the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion over 3
years(Sept.2012) £100,000
(Joint Applicant with Prof. Yujin Nagasawa) Templeton Philosophy‐Theology Cluster
Granton‘DeathandImmortality’(2012) £9,000
(withProf.YujinNagasawa) SpaldingTrust Small GrantforinvestigationintotheJohn
HickArchives(2013)
£1500
(with Prof. Yujin Nagasawa) Match funding for Spalding small grant (above) ‐ Hick
family(2013)
£1500
Fundraising (securing donations from religious communities and
organisations)
(Sept.1999)RisshoKoseiKai(Buddhistorganisation)donationforCentrefortheStudy
ofChristianityandAsianReligions.
£15,000
(Jan 2002) Worked with local Sikh Community in Birmingham (Guru Nanak Nishkam
Sewak Jatha, Handsworth) between 1999 and 2002 and secured sponsorship for a
LectureshipinSikhStudies.
£150,000over3yrs
(Sept.2005)TheSikhcommunityextendedtheirfunding.
£200,000afurther3yrs
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MembershipofAcademicSocieties
Member of the Board and Secretary (2005‐2013) to the European Society for
InterculturalTheologyandInterreligiousStudies(ESITIS)http://www.esitis.org/
MemberoftheBritishSocietyforthePhilosophyofReligion.
MemberoftheEuropeanSocietyforthePhilosophyofReligion
JournalEditing
Co‐editor,StudiesinInterreligiousDialogue(Peeters).
AssociateEditor:IslamandChristian‐MuslimRelations(Routledge)
AssociateEditor:EuropeanJournalforthePhilosophyofReligion(Akademos)
ArticleReviewerforSophia(Routledge)
EditorialBoard,PhilosophyCompass.
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CompletedDoctoralSupervisions
LeadSupervisorfor12successfulPhDtheses:
RolfeKing(2004),DonghwanKim(2004),StephenTsoukalas(2004),RYoungsoekCho
(2004),MarieWilliams(2007),RobertFoster(2008),YenyiLee(2012),RoyWong
(2012),KailashChatry(2012),KamalroopBirk(2012),StephenTorr(2012),Dulcie
McKenzie(2013)
CompletedM.PhilSupervisions
LeadSupervisorfor6successfulMPhiltheses:
RoisinHannaway(2002),AnulaBeckett(2003),RuthTetlow(2004),CharlesDobbin
(2004),RimaBarsoum(2007),MalcolmLambert(2008).
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AdministrativeExperience
2012‐
2011‐ 2009–2011 2009–2011
2008‐2009
2006‐2007
2005‐2007
2005‐2006
2005‐2007
2002‐2004
HeadofDepartmentofTheologyandReligion
Co‐Director,JohnHickCentreforPhilosophyofReligion
DirectorofQuality,SchoolofPhilosophy,TheologyandReligion.
Director of External College Collaborations (Queens College,
WoodbrookeCollege,OscottCollege) Director of Graduate Studies, School of Philosophy, Theology and
Religion
Member of Management Committee, Department of
TheologyandReligion(secondelection)
Chair of Taught Postgraduate Programmes, Department of
TheologyandReligion
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor, Department of Theology
andReligion
ProgrammeLeader:M.A.inTheology
Member of Management Committee, Department of
TheologyandReligion(firstelection) 1999‐2005
1999‐2006
Programme Leader: M.A. and MPhil in Inter‐religious
Relations
Director,CentrefortheStudyofChristianityandAsianReligions
ExternalExamining
a) Researchdegrees:
I have acted as an external examiner for 3 PhD theses (Manchester, Nottingham and
WalesUniversities)and4MPhiltheses(Bristolx2,LondonandNottingham).
b) TaughtProgrammes:
 HeythropCollegeUniversityofLondon,ExternalBDTheologyandPhilosophy
Programme(2005‐8)
 TrinityCollege,Dublin.M.Phil,EcumenicalStudiesProgramme.(2006‐9)
 BirminghamChristianCollege.MAinMissionLeadership(2006‐2009).
 BathSpaUniversityCollege.BAinPhilosophy,ReligionandEthics(2013‐)
ExternalAdvisoryRolesandCommunityEngagement
2000‐2004. AnglicanDiocesanCommitteeforInterfaithRelations,
BirminghamDiocese,BishopofAston.
2000‐
AcademicAdvisor,BirminghamBuddhistVihara,Ladywood,Birmingham.
2002 Hindu‐ChristianForum,Leicester.
2002‐2004. AdvisoryBoard,StPhilipsCentre,Leicester.
ConferencePapersandInvitedLectures
[Forthcoming]January21st2014
Invitedtodeliverthe2014OpenLectureatAl‐MaktoumCollege,UniversityofDundee,
Dundee.‘ScripturalReasoningandAestheticPoliticsofReligions’
April12th,2013
EuropeanSocietyforTheologyandReligion,BilbaoConference(10‐13April)keynote
lecture:‘ReligionsandtheReligiousOther’.
August27th,2012
17thAcademicConsultationoftheSocietasOecumenica2012,Belfast,NorthernIreland.
Keynote:‘PatternsandMethodsofInterreligiousEncounter’.
April28th,2011
European Society for Theology and Religion, Istanbul Conference (26-29th April).
Keynote Lecture: ‘The Teaching of Theology and Religion in the 21st century Academy’
March,12th,2010,
LeicesterTheologicalSociety:InvitedLecture:‘ThePolyphonicSelfandInter‐religious
Encounter’
July27th,2009.
LambethPalace:2ndUK‐ChinaStudyDayonReligionandSociety(revisitedtheme).
PanelMember(hostedbyBishopDavidUrquhart).
February12th,2008.
LambethPalace:1stUK‐ChinaStudyDayonReligionandSociety
‘Inter‐religiousrelationsandthepublicsquare’discussion.
September,24‐28,2006
UniversityofXianfan,China.TheologicalAestheticsConference.
‘Music,TheologyandtheMeetingofReligions’
September,18‐22,2006
2006UniversityofWuhan,China.Conference
‘Post‐secularthoughtinContemporaryWesternTheology’
Feb14‐18,2006
CentreforInterreligiousDialogue,TehranUniversity,IRAN.
‘TheGlobalEthic:CritiqueandContributionofPost‐secularTheology’
Nov2‐4,2005
CouncilofEurope,Strasbourg
‘GroupofSpecialistsontheRoleofWomenandMen(inreligion)inConflictPrevention
andResolutionandinPeaceBuilding(EG‐S‐CP)’
7‐10July,2004
ParliamentofWorldReligions,Barcelona,Spain
‘TheDilemmasofInterfaithEducationintheSecularUniversity’
19‐20June,2003
CouncilofEurope,Strasbourg.
‘A Group of Specialists on The Role of Women and Men in Intercultural and
Interreligious Dialogue for the Prevention of Conflict, for Peace‐building and for
Democratisation.’
3‐5April,2003
CentreforMulti‐religiousStudies,UniversityofAarhus,Denmark.[FP6Conference]
‘Possibilitiesfora“EuropeanPluralismProject”:theTheologicalDimension’
7‐12Dec2002
PunjabiUniversity,Patiala,INDIA
2002SardarniKailashKaurMemorialLecture
‘InterreligiousDialogueandtheSikhReligion’.
June25‐7,2002
RoyalNavyChaplains
‘HinduTraditionsandModelsofInter‐religiousEncounter’
‘SikhTraditionsandModelsofInter‐religiousEncounter’
11‐16May,2002
CentreforMulti‐religiousStudies,UniversityofAarhus,Denmark.[LaunchInternational
Conference]
‘Music,Inter‐faithandthePossibilityfora“Foster”Theology’
1March2001
OxfordInterfaithCentre,HarrisManchesterCollege,OxfordUniversity
‘TheologiesofReligionsin20thCenturyEurope’
Conferences/SymposiaOrganised
April15‐18,2009
EuropeanSocietyforInterculturalTheologyandInterreligiousStudies(ESITIS),
UniversityofSalzburg(co‐organiser)
Conference:Inter‐religiousHermeneuticsinPluralisticEurope
April11‐13,2007
EuropeanSocietyforInterculturalTheologyandInterreligiousStudies(ESITIS),
UniversityofBirmingham,Conference:‘ReligioninEurope’.
October,23‐24,2006
WorldCongressofFaiths/UniversityofBirmingham.
‘SeekingTransformationforaFracturedWorld’
.
Nov.26,2005
BirminghamBuddhistVihara,Ladywood,Birmingham.
LaunchofTeachingCentre
20Nov2003
CentrefortheStudyofChristianityandAsianReligions
Symposium:‘HindutvaandtheDalitsofSouthIndia’
25‐26Oct2003
Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha, UK, Hofstra University, NY, USA & Centre for
ChristianityandAsianReligions,BirminghamUniversity.
Conference:‘SikhismandInter‐religiousDialogue’
24‐25June,2003
WorldCongressofFaithsandDept.ofTheologyandReligion.
Conference:‘ToWhatEnd?InterreligiousDialogueandtheFuture’
12Dec2001
Centre for the Study of Christianity and Asian Religions with the History of Art
Department
Conference:‘Hindu‐ChristianDialogue(Hindu‐ChristianArt)’
4June,2001
DepartmentofTheologyandReligion,Birmingham.
Symposium:‘Tradition‐SpecificPluralism?D’CostaversusHick’
14‐15March,2001
WorldCongressofFaithsandDept.ofTheologyandReligion,Birmingham.
Conference:‘ProspectsforDialogue:Prof.Swidler’sSevenStagesofDialogue.
January,2014.