Notes on Contributors

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Alison Elliot is Associate Director of the Centre for Th eology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2004 she was the ﬁrst female Mod- erator of the General Assembly, Church of Scotland. Formerly an academic psychologist, her publications include Child Language (Cambridge: CUP, 1981) and ‘Putting Spiritual Care at the Centre of the NHS’, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 5 (2002).

Doug Gay is Lecturer in Practical Th eology at the University of Glasgow, UK and a Church of Scotland minister. His current research interests include the ‘emerging church’ and Scottish Nationalism. He is co-author of Alternative Worship, with Jonny Baker and Jenny Brown (London/Grand Rapids: SPCK/ Baker, 2003/4).

Mario I. Aguilar occupies a Chair in Divinity (Professor of Religion and Politics) and is director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St. Andrews, UK. His recent books include Th e History and Politics of Latin America, 3 vols (London: SCM Press, 2007–2008) and A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile, 9 vols (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004–2010).

Rudolf von Sinner is the Chair of Systematic Th eology, Ecumenism and Inter-Religious Dialogue and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the EST— Lutheran School of Th eology, São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In addition, he is a minister of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confes- sion in Brazil (IECLB).

Chris Shannahan is currently developing a ‘Community Ministry Project’ in inner city Birmingham, UK. He is a Methodist Minister in Handsworth, Bir- mingham and a visiting lecturer at the University of Birmingham. His com- pleted PhD thesis is entitled ‘Towards a 21st Century British Urban Th eology of Liberation and Diﬀerence’, University of Birmingham, 2007.

Owen Anderson is Assistant Professor in Integrative Studies, Arizona State University West, USA. He holds degrees in philosophy, religious studies and history, and teaches philosophy of religion, applied ethics and science and religion. His current research focuses on the ethics of belief, worldviews and common ground.

Angela Pears is Senior Lecturer in Religion, Th eology and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published broadly in the ﬁelds of feminist theology and learning and teaching. Her recent publications include Feminist Christian Encounters (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004) and ‘Reusable Electronic Learning Objects for Th eology and Religious Studies’, with Alison Le Cornu, Discourse (2007).

Max Stackhouse is a well-known Professor Emeritus of Th eology and Public Life and Director of the Kuyper Center for Public Th eology, Princeton Th eo- logical Seminary, USA. His numerous publications, which focus primarily on theological ethics and society, include Public Th eology and Political Economy (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984); On Moral Business: Classical and Contempo- rary Resources on Ethics and Economic Life (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995) and God and Globalization, 4 vols (New York: Trinity Press International/ Continuum, 2000–2007).

Dirkie Smit is Professor of Systematic Th eology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is concerned with the public role of the Church and he pub- lishes widely, including contributing to public opinion through a weekly newspaper column in Die Burger. Th e most recent collection of his scholarly articles is Essays in Public Th eology, edited by Ernst Conradie (Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, 2007).

James Haire is Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Professor of Th eology at Charles Sturt University and Director of the Public and Contextual Th eology Strategic Research Centre, Canberra, Australia. He has been involved in cooperation between diﬀerent Christian denominations in Australia, as well as peace and reconciliation negotiations with Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas, Indonesia.

Hendrik M. Vroom is Professor of Religion and Apologetics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His most recent publications include A Spectrum of Worldviews: