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

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 麻豆精选.

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 .

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