Stephen Pattison
Biographic Data
| ID | 341333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Pattison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pattison |
| SIGNATURE | PATTISON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3475-6987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Possible Worlds Theory Account of Dramatic Irony in Fawlty Towers
This article presents a systematic approach to characterizing dramatic irony using features drawn from the literature in conjunction with the analytical framework provided by Possible Worlds Theory (PWT). Checklists concerning the relative knowledge of participants, discourse levels and participant roles, the generation of tension, and resulting dramatic irony effects were formulated and applied to examples of dramatic irony from two episodes of …
Engaging with care
This paper contributes to the literature on ethics in Participatory Research by looking at the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London boroughs. The Researcher-in-Residence is embedded in the organisation to enable knowledge mobilisation and knowledge coproduction. Whereas negotiation of different types of expertise to coproduce evidence might raise issues of power differentials, the …
Conversations in practical theology
If wonder is the beginning of seeking knowledge and wisdom, conversation is the means by which wonder is explored and adumbrated. In 1989, before the founding of BIAPT, when Adam and Eve were children, I advocated the notion of critical, appreciative conversation as way of understanding and engaging in Practical Theology in a paper entitled ‘Some straw for the bricks’. Subsequently, I have become increasingly convinced that Practical Theology is …
Why we need religion
Many disciplines across the arts are engaging in a paradigm shift from explicit conscious cognition to implicit emotional embodied knowledge. In that context, this book attempts a ‘respectful ... psy
Invitation to Research in Practical Theology
Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades. This book provides a complete and original research primer in the major theories, approaches and methods at the cutting-edge of research in contemporary practical theology. It represents a reflection on the very practice of the discipline itself, its foundational questions and epistemological claims. Each c…
Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation
The important, if not entirely original, message of this book is that shame goes unrecognized within Christian life and discourse, often hidden within notions of sin and guilt. This leads to the pe
Response to Roundtable Review of Saving Face
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy provides a lens through which to explore critical questions relating to contemporary religion in public life, and the institutionalisation of Islam in particular. Providing a rich description of the personnel, practice, and politics of contemporary Muslim chaplaincy, the authors consider the extent to which Muslim chaplaincy might be distinctive in Britain relative to the work of Muslim chaplains in the USA and oth…
The Possibility of Citizen Theology
In this article the authors outline and critique two models of public theology in order to advance a new, more helpful, approach. The context is British but the intention is to draw lessons for public theology in the global west. The state of British public theology is briefly surveyed and found to be in some disarray. The most common models—characterized as ‘disciple theology’ and ‘liberal activist theology’—are critically analysed and found in …
Theology on the Menu
Spirituality and Spiritual Care Made Simple
This paper advances some novel definitions and understandings of spirituality. Spirituality is characterized as the experience and process of engaging with and managing significant relations and attachments with a variety of objects, including material, immaterial, psychological, social, living, dead, conscious, unconscious, and transcendent objects. The genesis of this understanding is outlined. Spiritual care, religious spirituality and religio…
Ward, Pete. 2007. Participation and Mediation
Miller, Daniel. 2008. The Comfort of Things
(2009). Miller, Daniel. 2008. The Comfort of Things. Practical Theology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 290-292
Smith, Graeme. 2007. A Short History of Secularism
(2008). Smith, Graeme. 2007. A Short History of Secularism. Practical Theology: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 378-380
Is Pastoral Care Dead in a Mission-led Church
Pastoral care was at the leading edge of practical theological development two decades ago. It seems now to have been relegated to the sidelines. This paper considers the apparent marginalization of pastoral care in a mission-led era and argues that many of the emphases and concerns of pastoral care will need to be re-discovered and reintegrated if mission is to have any chance of succeeding
Ingold, Tim. Lines
Absent friends in medical humanities
Several humanities disciplines, including the study of modern languages and of religion and theology, can greatly enhance discussions of humane healthcare and should be encouraged to contribute more
Need humanities be so useless? Justifying the place and role of humanities as a critical resource for performance and practice
Justifying the existence, position, and relevance of academic humanities scholarship may be difficult in the face of chronic practical needs in health care. Such scholarship may seem parasitic on human activity and performance that directly contributes to human wellbeing and health care. Here, a possible and partial justification for the importance of scholarship in the humanities as a critical resource for practice and performance is undertaken …
The sacred gaze
The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice Morgan, David." Material Religion, 2(1), pp. 121–122
Medical Humanities
This article aims to engender discussion about the nature and future of medical humanities. First, a normative personal vision of medical humanities as an inclusive movement is outlined. Some of the problems that may emerge if medical humanities conceives itself too narrowly are then discussed. The case of the rise of the medical ethics movement is used to show what can happen to a movement that restricts itself too quickly and then the stages of…
Shame
In this book, first published in 2000, Stephen Pattison considers the nature of shame as it is discussed in the diverse discourses of literature, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and sociology and concludes that 'shame' is not a single unitary phenomenon, but rather a set of separable but related understandings in different discourses. Situating chronic shame primarily within the metaphorical ecology of defilement, pollution and to…
Public Theology
Public Theology
Managing hypothesis 1, or on providing ‘ good enough’ public services
The emperor's new verbs
Engaging with care
This paper contributes to the literature on ethics in Participatory Research by looking at the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London boroughs. The Researcher-in-Residence is embedded in the organisation to enable knowledge mobilisation and knowledge coproduction. Whereas negotiation of different types of expertise to coproduce evidence might raise issues of power differentials, the …
Medical Humanities
This article aims to engender discussion about the nature and future of medical humanities. First, a normative personal vision of medical humanities as an inclusive movement is outlined. Some of the problems that may emerge if medical humanities conceives itself too narrowly are then discussed. The case of the rise of the medical ethics movement is used to show what can happen to a movement that restricts itself too quickly and then the stages of…
Need humanities be so useless? Justifying the place and role of humanities as a critical resource for performance and practice
Justifying the existence, position, and relevance of academic humanities scholarship may be difficult in the face of chronic practical needs in health care. Such scholarship may seem parasitic on human activity and performance that directly contributes to human wellbeing and health care. Here, a possible and partial justification for the importance of scholarship in the humanities as a critical resource for practice and performance is undertaken …
The emperor's new verbs
Absent friends in medical humanities
Several humanities disciplines, including the study of modern languages and of religion and theology, can greatly enhance discussions of humane healthcare and should be encouraged to contribute more
The value of ethics
The emperor's new verbs
Managing hypothesis 1, or on providing ‘ good enough’ public services
Shame
In this book, first published in 2000, Stephen Pattison considers the nature of shame as it is discussed in the diverse discourses of literature, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and sociology and concludes that 'shame' is not a single unitary phenomenon, but rather a set of separable but related understandings in different discourses. Situating chronic shame primarily within the metaphorical ecology of defilement, pollution and to…
Public Theology
Public Theology
Medical Humanities
This article aims to engender discussion about the nature and future of medical humanities. First, a normative personal vision of medical humanities as an inclusive movement is outlined. Some of the problems that may emerge if medical humanities conceives itself too narrowly are then discussed. The case of the rise of the medical ethics movement is used to show what can happen to a movement that restricts itself too quickly and then the stages of…
Need humanities be so useless? Justifying the place and role of humanities as a critical resource for performance and practice
Justifying the existence, position, and relevance of academic humanities scholarship may be difficult in the face of chronic practical needs in health care. Such scholarship may seem parasitic on human activity and performance that directly contributes to human wellbeing and health care. Here, a possible and partial justification for the importance of scholarship in the humanities as a critical resource for practice and performance is undertaken …
The sacred gaze
The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice Morgan, David." Material Religion, 2(1), pp. 121–122
Absent friends in medical humanities
Several humanities disciplines, including the study of modern languages and of religion and theology, can greatly enhance discussions of humane healthcare and should be encouraged to contribute more
Smith, Graeme. 2007. A Short History of Secularism
(2008). Smith, Graeme. 2007. A Short History of Secularism. Practical Theology: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 378-380
Is Pastoral Care Dead in a Mission-led Church
Pastoral care was at the leading edge of practical theological development two decades ago. It seems now to have been relegated to the sidelines. This paper considers the apparent marginalization of pastoral care in a mission-led era and argues that many of the emphases and concerns of pastoral care will need to be re-discovered and reintegrated if mission is to have any chance of succeeding
Ingold, Tim. Lines
Ward, Pete. 2007. Participation and Mediation
Miller, Daniel. 2008. The Comfort of Things
(2009). Miller, Daniel. 2008. The Comfort of Things. Practical Theology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 290-292
Spirituality and Spiritual Care Made Simple
This paper advances some novel definitions and understandings of spirituality. Spirituality is characterized as the experience and process of engaging with and managing significant relations and attachments with a variety of objects, including material, immaterial, psychological, social, living, dead, conscious, unconscious, and transcendent objects. The genesis of this understanding is outlined. Spiritual care, religious spirituality and religio…
Theology on the Menu
The Possibility of Citizen Theology
In this article the authors outline and critique two models of public theology in order to advance a new, more helpful, approach. The context is British but the intention is to draw lessons for public theology in the global west. The state of British public theology is briefly surveyed and found to be in some disarray. The most common models—characterized as ‘disciple theology’ and ‘liberal activist theology’—are critically analysed and found in …
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy
Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy provides a lens through which to explore critical questions relating to contemporary religion in public life, and the institutionalisation of Islam in particular. Providing a rich description of the personnel, practice, and politics of contemporary Muslim chaplaincy, the authors consider the extent to which Muslim chaplaincy might be distinctive in Britain relative to the work of Muslim chaplains in the USA and oth…
Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation
The important, if not entirely original, message of this book is that shame goes unrecognized within Christian life and discourse, often hidden within notions of sin and guilt. This leads to the pe
Response to Roundtable Review of Saving Face
Invitation to Research in Practical Theology
Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades. This book provides a complete and original research primer in the major theories, approaches and methods at the cutting-edge of research in contemporary practical theology. It represents a reflection on the very practice of the discipline itself, its foundational questions and epistemological claims. Each c…
Why we need religion
Many disciplines across the arts are engaging in a paradigm shift from explicit conscious cognition to implicit emotional embodied knowledge. In that context, this book attempts a ‘respectful ... psy
Conversations in practical theology
If wonder is the beginning of seeking knowledge and wisdom, conversation is the means by which wonder is explored and adumbrated. In 1989, before the founding of BIAPT, when Adam and Eve were children, I advocated the notion of critical, appreciative conversation as way of understanding and engaging in Practical Theology in a paper entitled ‘Some straw for the bricks’. Subsequently, I have become increasingly convinced that Practical Theology is …
Engaging with care
This paper contributes to the literature on ethics in Participatory Research by looking at the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London boroughs. The Researcher-in-Residence is embedded in the organisation to enable knowledge mobilisation and knowledge coproduction. Whereas negotiation of different types of expertise to coproduce evidence might raise issues of power differentials, the …
Philosophy (19 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Law (6 works)