Dr Jeremy H. Kidwell

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@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
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.

Feedback and office hours

By appointment.

Qualifications

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

Biography

Broadly speaking, I am an interdisciplinary scholar:聽trained in ethics and constructive theology with a background in聽the聽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 civilizations and ecologies without deference to disciplinary silos and as a result it is聽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聽field philosopher聽allowing an聽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 jeremykidwell.info, but my current areas of work include: environmental ethics (or 鈥渞eligion and ecology鈥�), technology, business and organisational ethics, design and aesthetics, and the integration of ethical reasoning with biblical exegesis.

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Research

I currently have three research projects underway:

  • An AHRC funded study titled 鈥渇inding common ground鈥� which seeks to investigate religious environmental groups in Britain and finds ways of connecting up religious and secular carbon workers.
  • A monograph-length book project,聽Ecological Reconciliation in the Anthropocene聽which examines ways in which different theologies of time are at work in the recently ratified construct of the 鈥淎nthropocene鈥�
  • An investigation into the ethics of design.

Other activities

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

Publications

Books

  •  (Routledge, June 2016)
  • , edited by Jeremy Kidwell and Sean Doherty (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) Reviews: 

Data sets

  • “” [geocoded dataset] (2016). Eco-Congregation Scotland, 2014- 2016 From the “” 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

  • "" 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)
  • “,” 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.
  • "" 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)
  • “” in The Present Moment, ed. Markus Bockmuehl (Oxford: ORA, 2011)
  • “” FORUM, Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, Issue 8, Spring 2009

Conference proceedings

  • "” 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)
  • “,” 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)

Expertise

  • Religious environmental groups
  • Religious environmentalism