Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives

1. Theology and Religious Studies for a Multifaith and Secular Society, David Ford; 2. Theological Theology and Theological Religious Studies, Gavin D'Costa; 3. Theology as the Future of Religious Studies, Erik Borgman and Stephan van Erp; 4. 'A Coat of Many Colours': Interweaving Strands in Theology and Religious Studies, Ursula King; 5. Interdisciplinary Theology: Bridging the Theology/Religious Studies Divide, Shannon Craigo-Snell; 6. The Inevitability of Normativity in the Study of Religion: Theology in Religious Studies, Thomas A. Lewis; 7. Recent Developments in Theology and Religious Studies: The South African Experience, Tony Moodie and Janet Jarvis; 8. The Irony of Religious Studies: An Argument from the Swedish Experience, Mattias Martinson; 9. Towards a Socio-Cultural, Non-Theological Definition of Religion, James L. Cox; 10. A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Theology and Religious Studies, Kim Knott; 11. The Bible: Fringe or Hinge? The Place of Biblical Studies in the Theology / Religious Studies Debate, Hugh Pyper; 12. The Place of Theology in Iranian Universities: Teaching Theology and its Modern Problems in Iran, Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi; 13. Religious Studies versus Theology: Why I'm Still Glad that I Converted from Theology to Religious Studies, Denise Cush.

D.L. Bird is Subject Coordinator for Theology for the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK. She is co-editor (with Yvonne Sherwood) of Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text (Ashgate 2005) and associate editor with David Jasper and George Newlands of Believing in the Text (Peter Lang 2004). Simon G. Smith is Associate Director of the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

"A fascinating, coherent and highly readable book." Literature and Theology, Vol 24 no 1.