Dr KATIE CROSS

Dr KATIE CROSS
Dr KATIE CROSS
Dr KATIE CROSS

MA (Hons), MTh, PhD

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
k.cross@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
KCS14 King's College
Old Aberdeen Campus
King's College
AB24 3UB

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School/Department
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

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.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Senior Undergraduate Tutor, Divinity
  • Sophia Network (Divinity and Religious Studies) 
  • Member, Gifford Lecture Committee
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

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Divinity.


Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Divinity

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

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.

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Divinity.

Supervisees

Teaching
Publications

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  • Traumatised people are not your mission field

    Cross, K., O'Donnell, K.
    Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites
  • Fragments from within the Pandemic: Theological Experiments in Silence, Speech, and Dislocated Time

    Cross, K., Radford, C. L., O'Donnell, K.
    Practical Theology, vol. 14, no. 1-2, pp. 144-158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Sunday Assembly and Theologies of Suffering

    Cross, K.
    Routledge, London. 160 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • The earthquake that shocked Europe: how Lisbon recovered after 1755 – Recovery podcast series part two

    Bligh, A., Ware, G., Allen, G., Cross, K., McCallam, D., Sabine, M. J. L.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
  • Book review: Taking on practical theology: the idolization of context and the hope of community by Courtney T. Goto

    Cross, K.
    Practical Theology, vol. 13, no. 1-2, pp. 174-175
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • "I Have the Power in My Body to Make People Sin": The Trauma of Purity Culture and the Concept of "Body Theodicy"

    Cross, K.
    Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture and Church in Critical Perspective. O'Donnell, K., Cross, K. (eds.). 1 edition. SCM Press, pp. 21-39, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture and Church in Critical Perspective

    Cross, K., O'Donnell, K.
    Books and Reports: Anthologies
  • Introduction: Feminist Trauma Theologies

    Cross, K., O'Donnell, K.
    Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture and Church in Critical Perspective. O'Donnell, K., Cross, K. (eds.). SCM Press, pp. 12-16
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Courtney T. Goto, Taking on Practical Theology: The Idolization of Context and the Hope of Community

    Cross, K.
    Theology, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 460-461
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Review:: This Is My Body: a story of sickness and health by Jennie Hogan

    Cross, K.
    Practical Theology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 455-456
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
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