Dr KATIE CROSS

Dr KATIE CROSS
Dr KATIE CROSS
Dr KATIE CROSS

MA (Hons), MTh, PhD

Lecturer

About

Biography

I currently hold the post of Christ’s College Lecturer in Practical Theology. My work and teaching is centred around theologies of trauma, suffering, and division. My first book was a theological engagement with the Sunday Assembly, a "godless congregation," and I have also co-edited two volumes on trauma theology (Feminist Trauma Theologies and Bearing Witness, both with SCM Press). 

My current research explores the beliefs, practices, and traumas of Christians who have left the church. I am an active qualitative researcher and I regularly share my research in public forums.

Qualifications

  • Aurora 
    2024 - Advance HE 

    Aurora is Advance HE's leadership development initiative for women. It is run as a unique partnership bringing together leadership experts, higher education providers and research institutes to take positive action to address the under-representation of women in leadership positions in the sector.

External Memberships

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

My research interests include:
  • Trauma theology
  • Theology and disaster
  • Religious responses to tragic events and crises
  • Theodicy and the problem of evil
  • Secularisation
  • Atheism and unbelief
  • Non-religious spirituality
  • Church-leaving 
  • Qualitative research and methodologies 

Research Areas

Divinity

Supervising

Research Specialisms

  • Theology
  • Religion in Society
  • Theology and Religious Studies

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching