Ursula King

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL

STL (Paris)
MA (Delhi)
PhD (London)
Hon. DD (Edinburgh)
FRSA
Professor Emerita, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Religions Research, SOAS, University of London
Former President of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (1993-95) and of the British Association for the Study of Religions (1991-94)

Born in Germany, King studied at the University of Bonn, earned a licentiate in sacred theology from the Institut Catholique in Paris, a master's degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate from King's College at the University of London. Starting with patristic studies, her focus of interest changed to systematic theology with studies in spirituality, religious pluralism and inter-religious dialogue.

Ursula King was Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, England where she founded and directed the Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender and, from 1989 to 1997, chaired the department of theology and religious studies. She has been a visiting professor in feminist theology at the University of Oslo, held a chair in ecumenical theology and interreligious dialogue at Xavier University in Cincinnati, and served as the Bampton Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE

Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise (London: Macmillan, and University Park: Penn State Press, 1993) and as editor volumes such as: Turning Points in Religious Studies (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1990); Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader (London: SPCK, and Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994); Religion and Gender (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995). She is also one of the co-editors of Religion in Europe: Contemporary Perspectives (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1994). In earlier years she published a German translation of the Trinitarian treatises of Marius Victorinus and two studies on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She has written a new biography of Teilhard de Chardin, Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996). In spring 1996 she gave the Bampton Lectures at Oxford University which are published as Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chardin (London: SCM, and Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997). She has edited Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age (London: Cassell, 1998).

Some of her more recent publications are:

"Feminism: the missing dimension in the dialogue of religions" In J. D. May (Ed.), Pluralism and the Religions. The Theological and Political Dimensions (pp. 40 - 55). (London: Cassell. 1998).

Editor of Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium. Turning Points In Religious Studies (2001) and Feminist Theology from the Third World A Reader and

with Tina Beattie, Gender, Religion and Diversity Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2004)

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