Anna Rowlands
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Rowlands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowlands |
| SIGNATURE | ROWLANDS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Illuminating Dark Times
Illuminating Dark Times:The Surprising Relevance of Catholic Social Teaching Anna Rowlands (bio) This article is the text of the inaugural Annual Lecture of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Dublin, delivered on 24 March 2022 at the JCFJ premises in Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. In 1968 the social philosopher and sometime critic of Christianity Hannah Arendt published a book in homage to Bertolt Brecht's poem, 'To Posterity', which begi…
Fratelli tutti
This article explores the teaching of Fratelli tutti as an integrating document of the papacy of Francis. Exploring the title as greeting and imperative, the authors make a case for exploring FT as both a development of the themes of earlier social encyclicals and as an attempt to explore an integral humanism for a new age facing economic, environmental, migratory, and social-conflictual challenges. The article lays out a summary of these main th…
Towards a Politics of Communion
Anna Rowlands offers a guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way these elements live together in community — most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891. Rowlands takes …
On apophatic political theology
The Politics of the Common Good
This article explores the changing terrain of appeals to the politics of the common good. It considers Rowan Williams’s call to recognise the decline in such a politics and situates this claim alongside the resurgence of the idea of the common good in various forms of populism. It concludes with a brief consideration of the kinds of Christian theology that might speak to both Williams’s concerns and the return of the idea from the unsettled margi…
Between radical orthodoxy and the turn to the empirical
This response to Tim Stacey's paper agrees with Stacey's assertion of the importance of narrative and myth to political culture but aims to challenge the notion that we need turn solely to the empirical and ethnographic to find resources outside of the Radically Orthodox in order to ground such an appeal
Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good
This article explores potential connections between the experience of contemporary forced migrants subject to destitution and detention policies in the UK and readings of the biblical text, including the Book of Jeremiah. Drawing from fieldwork interviews conducted in London, it notes the significance of Jeremiah 29 to and its interpretation by interviewees. In dialogue with other articles in this volume and based on the insights of those intervi…
Laudato si
“Climate scientists do not appreciate that their science represents a politics. They are surprised to be called lobbyists by climate denialists when they are simply reporting on climate models and data. They believe that their climate change theory, observations, and data are unmediated by social or political worldviews or belief systems; for them, climate change is physics and not politics,” writes British political theologian Michael Northcott.…
Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church
Teaching Political Theology as Ministerial Formation
This article reflects on the experience of teaching political theology to undergraduate students training for public ministry in the Anglican, Methodist, URC and Roman Catholic traditions in a British context. Whilst welcoming the increased profile of political theology within ministerial training this article challenges the continuing tendency towards dualist and instrumental accounts and poses three areas for further reflection and resourcing: …
On the Temptations of Sovereignty
This article offers an analysis of the main tenets of Catholic social teaching as they relate to the politics of asylum in a UK context. Addressing the multilayered and complex crisis of confidence and asylum seekers with regard the moral performance of the UK system, this article proposes that the significance of CST's contribution to public discourse has been heightened by three key shifts in state practice. While the constructive contours of t…
Beaudoin, Tom. Witness to Dispossession
(2010). Beaudoin, Tom. Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of the Post-modern Theologian. Practical Theology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 117-120
Writing Bodies, Selves, Traditions
This article is a critical theological reflection on the teaching of two undergraduate courses in practical theology which have employed supervision practice as part of classroom pedagogy. Overturning the binary between classroom practice and fieldwork or placement practice this article presents an argument for a more playful and imaginative attempt to bring theoretical and practical knowledge together in the context of ministerial education and …
"Sharing a Confidence"
Revd Dr Susan Durber, Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge talks to Dr Anna Rowlands, at the time of this conversation Director of Pastoral Studies at Westcott House, Cambridge, but since January 2009 the Director of Pastoral Studies and Tutor in Theology at Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge Theological Federation
Angry Angels' as Guides to Ethics and Faith
In a time of political and economic hyperreality, where there seems to be less and less interval between impulse and act, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose stand together, half a century apart, as politico-religious philosophers who fought for and staked themselves within this reflective interval. This article explores the creative parallels between their writings, drawing on Rose's critical and constructive engagement with Weil's essay on 'Human Pers…
The effect of three different educational approaches on children's drawing ability
Background. Although there is a national curriculum for art education in the UK there are also alternative approaches in the private sector. This paper addresses the issue of the effect of these approaches on children's drawing ability. Aim. To compare the drawing ability in three drawing tasks of children in Steiner, Montessori and traditional schools. Sample. The participants were 60 school children between the ages of 5;11 and 7;2. Twenty chil…
Laudato si
“Climate scientists do not appreciate that their science represents a politics. They are surprised to be called lobbyists by climate denialists when they are simply reporting on climate models and data. They believe that their climate change theory, observations, and data are unmediated by social or political worldviews or belief systems; for them, climate change is physics and not politics,” writes British political theologian Michael Northcott.…
On apophatic political theology
Between radical orthodoxy and the turn to the empirical
This response to Tim Stacey's paper agrees with Stacey's assertion of the importance of narrative and myth to political culture but aims to challenge the notion that we need turn solely to the empirical and ethnographic to find resources outside of the Radically Orthodox in order to ground such an appeal
Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good
This article explores potential connections between the experience of contemporary forced migrants subject to destitution and detention policies in the UK and readings of the biblical text, including the Book of Jeremiah. Drawing from fieldwork interviews conducted in London, it notes the significance of Jeremiah 29 to and its interpretation by interviewees. In dialogue with other articles in this volume and based on the insights of those intervi…
The effect of three different educational approaches on children's drawing ability
Background. Although there is a national curriculum for art education in the UK there are also alternative approaches in the private sector. This paper addresses the issue of the effect of these approaches on children's drawing ability. Aim. To compare the drawing ability in three drawing tasks of children in Steiner, Montessori and traditional schools. Sample. The participants were 60 school children between the ages of 5;11 and 7;2. Twenty chil…
Writing Bodies, Selves, Traditions
This article is a critical theological reflection on the teaching of two undergraduate courses in practical theology which have employed supervision practice as part of classroom pedagogy. Overturning the binary between classroom practice and fieldwork or placement practice this article presents an argument for a more playful and imaginative attempt to bring theoretical and practical knowledge together in the context of ministerial education and …
"Sharing a Confidence"
Revd Dr Susan Durber, Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge talks to Dr Anna Rowlands, at the time of this conversation Director of Pastoral Studies at Westcott House, Cambridge, but since January 2009 the Director of Pastoral Studies and Tutor in Theology at Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge Theological Federation
Angry Angels' as Guides to Ethics and Faith
In a time of political and economic hyperreality, where there seems to be less and less interval between impulse and act, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose stand together, half a century apart, as politico-religious philosophers who fought for and staked themselves within this reflective interval. This article explores the creative parallels between their writings, drawing on Rose's critical and constructive engagement with Weil's essay on 'Human Pers…
Beaudoin, Tom. Witness to Dispossession
(2010). Beaudoin, Tom. Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of the Post-modern Theologian. Practical Theology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 117-120
On the Temptations of Sovereignty
This article offers an analysis of the main tenets of Catholic social teaching as they relate to the politics of asylum in a UK context. Addressing the multilayered and complex crisis of confidence and asylum seekers with regard the moral performance of the UK system, this article proposes that the significance of CST's contribution to public discourse has been heightened by three key shifts in state practice. While the constructive contours of t…
Teaching Political Theology as Ministerial Formation
This article reflects on the experience of teaching political theology to undergraduate students training for public ministry in the Anglican, Methodist, URC and Roman Catholic traditions in a British context. Whilst welcoming the increased profile of political theology within ministerial training this article challenges the continuing tendency towards dualist and instrumental accounts and poses three areas for further reflection and resourcing: …
Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church
Laudato si
“Climate scientists do not appreciate that their science represents a politics. They are surprised to be called lobbyists by climate denialists when they are simply reporting on climate models and data. They believe that their climate change theory, observations, and data are unmediated by social or political worldviews or belief systems; for them, climate change is physics and not politics,” writes British political theologian Michael Northcott.…
Between radical orthodoxy and the turn to the empirical
This response to Tim Stacey's paper agrees with Stacey's assertion of the importance of narrative and myth to political culture but aims to challenge the notion that we need turn solely to the empirical and ethnographic to find resources outside of the Radically Orthodox in order to ground such an appeal
Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good
This article explores potential connections between the experience of contemporary forced migrants subject to destitution and detention policies in the UK and readings of the biblical text, including the Book of Jeremiah. Drawing from fieldwork interviews conducted in London, it notes the significance of Jeremiah 29 to and its interpretation by interviewees. In dialogue with other articles in this volume and based on the insights of those intervi…
The Politics of the Common Good
This article explores the changing terrain of appeals to the politics of the common good. It considers Rowan Williams’s call to recognise the decline in such a politics and situates this claim alongside the resurgence of the idea of the common good in various forms of populism. It concludes with a brief consideration of the kinds of Christian theology that might speak to both Williams’s concerns and the return of the idea from the unsettled margi…
Towards a Politics of Communion
Anna Rowlands offers a guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way these elements live together in community — most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891. Rowlands takes …
On apophatic political theology
Illuminating Dark Times
Illuminating Dark Times:The Surprising Relevance of Catholic Social Teaching Anna Rowlands (bio) This article is the text of the inaugural Annual Lecture of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Dublin, delivered on 24 March 2022 at the JCFJ premises in Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. In 1968 the social philosopher and sometime critic of Christianity Hannah Arendt published a book in homage to Bertolt Brecht's poem, 'To Posterity', which begi…
Fratelli tutti
This article explores the teaching of Fratelli tutti as an integrating document of the papacy of Francis. Exploring the title as greeting and imperative, the authors make a case for exploring FT as both a development of the themes of earlier social encyclicals and as an attempt to explore an integral humanism for a new age facing economic, environmental, migratory, and social-conflictual challenges. The article lays out a summary of these main th…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
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