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Dr. Gary Slater, PhD

Current affiliations

  • Institute of Christian Social Science

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Ethics of Migration- Human impact on the earth’s natural environment.
  • The history of religions
  • The philosophical theology
  • The interfaith dialogue
  • Graphic representations of religious practices

Academic Education

11/2009 - 05/2013Doctoral studies at the University of Oxford (GB). Dissertation (DPhil) with the title: "Trajectories of Peircean Philosophical Theology: Scriptural Reasoning, Axiology of Thinking, and Nested Continua".
09/2008 - 09/2009Master of Theology and History at the University of Edinburgh (GB). Dissertation (MTh) with the title: "Women’s Ordination in the Church of England: An Abductive Approach".
08/2002 - 05/2006Bachelor of Arts in History and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (USA).

Work Experience

since 09/2019Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Christian Social Sciences at University of Münster (DE).
10/2022 - 04/2023Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften
08/2016 - 09/2019Visiting Assistant Professor at the St. Edward’s University (USA).
08/2014 - 08/2016Adjunct Professor at the St. Edward’s University (USA).
03/2015 - 03/2016Adjunct Professor at the Huston-Tillotson University (USA).
11/2013 - 11/2014Academic Consultant for Mouseion Professors Ltd.
03/2014 - 10/2014Academic Consultant for the PhD Consultancy.
09/2012 - 08/2014Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas (USA).
01/2012 - 05/2012Teaching Assistant at the University of Edinburgh (GB).
09/2010 - 08/2011Research Assistant at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University (GB).

Functions and Memberships

since 2021Mitglieder, European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment
since 2021Member, Society of Christian Ethics
since 2020Mitglieder, Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik"
since 2011Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought
since 2010American Academy of Religion

Publications

Our Common, Bordered Home: Laudato si' and the Promise of an Integrated Migration-Ecological Ethics
Slater, Gary (2023)
Leiden: Brill | Schöningh.
Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Interrogating cultural assumptions: a productive challenge for social ethics
Hänselmann, Eva; Slater, Gary (2022)
Münster: (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Working paper
Integral Ecology as Theosemiotic: A Case for a Pragmatist Theological Ethics
Slater, Gary (2022)
In: American Journal of Theology and Philosophy , 43(2-3)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Charlottesville Pragmatism: Richard Rorty’s Neo-pragmatism and Peter Ochs’s Rabbinic/Scriptural Pragmatism.
Slater Gary, (2021)
In: Goodson Jacob L., Stone Brad E. (eds.), Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements With a Secular Philosopher. Lanham/Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Die Enzyklika Fratelli tutti von Papst Franziskus (3. Oktober 2020). Sozialethische Beobachtungen und Analysen (ICS AP 14)
Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Bachmann, Claudius; Hänselmann, Eva; Ladenburger, Barbara; Ostertag, Lina-Marie; Quaing, Lea; Rehbach, Lukas; Slater, Gary; Urselmann, Judith (Hrsg.) (2021)
Münster: Universität Münster.
Type of Publication: Working paper
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