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PROFESSOR PAUL BADHAM, MA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge),
PhD (Birmingham)
Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Director of the Alister
Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre
Email: p.badham@lamp.ac.uk
Present
Positions
1991- Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Wales
Lampeter.
2002 - Director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre,
Lampeter
2004 -Senior Research Fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford University
2006 – Vice-President of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union
2006 - Editor of the Journal Modern Believing
2006- Patron of Dignity in Dying
2007- Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
Current Research
Awarded a four year grant of 335K in 2004 with Professor Xinzhong Yao
from the John Templeton Foundation for a comparative survey
of Religious Experiencing in China and Britain. To be published
as Religious Experience in Contemporary China by the
University of Wales Press in January 2008
Commissioned by SPCK to write on Is there a Christian case for Assisted
Dying? (2008)
Former Positions
1998 -2003 Chair of Federal University of Wales Panel for
Theology & Religious Studies
1999-2003 Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Panel
for Philosophy, Religion, Theology & Law
1999 -2002 Head of School of Anthropology, Classics, Philosophy, Theology & Religious
Studies University of Wales Lampeter.
1991-97 Dean of the Faculty of Theology and
Head of Department of Theology, Religious Studies & Islamic Studies
Biographical Citations
Who’s Who (since 1999)
Who’s Who in the World (since 2004)
Education
Jesus College Oxford, 1962-65 BA, MA Biblical and Patristic Theology
Jesus College Cambridge 1966-68 BA, MA Part 3 Christian Theology
in the Modern World
University of Birmingham 1968-73 Ph.D. The concept of the soul
Career
1965-66 Divinity Master at Churchers College, Petersfield
1968-69 Curate of Edgbaston, Birmingham
1969-73 Curate of Rubery, Birmingham
1973-83 Lecturer in Theology UWL
1983-88 Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies
1988-91 Reader
External Examinerships
For Undergraduate and taught Masters: University of Manchester,
King's College& Heythrop College, University of London, University
of Bristol, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Open University
For Research Degrees Kings’ College and SOAS , University
of London, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, and
Kent and for the Archbishop of Canterbury's Diploma..
Publications since 2001
"Religious and Near-Death experience in relation to belief in a future
life" in John Colwell, Called to Hope :Perspectives on life to come Paternoster
2001 pp.210-225
“The Revival of Liberal Modernism” in Mark Chapman The Future
of Liberal Theology Ashgate 2002 pp.77-87
“The Authority of Religious Experience” in J. Clatworthy By
Whose Authority? Modern Churchpeople’s Union, Liverpool 2003
pp. 91-132 also in Modern Believing Vol.44 no.4 October
2003 pp 6-17
“Christianity and Genetics” in David N.Cooper, Nature
Encyclopedia of the Human Genome Volume 1 pp.511-513 London UK, Nature
Publishing Group 2003 reprinted in Encylopaedia of Life Sciences 2006
“Why Religious Experience Matters” in Transpersonal
Psychology Review Vol.8 no.2 Autumn 2004 pp. 3-19
“The Experiential Grounds for Believing in God and a Future Life” in Modern
Believing Vol.46 no, 1 January 2005 pp.28-43
“The implications of John Hick’s theodicy for Christian faith and
practice” in Paul Weingartner, Das Problem des Ubels in der Welt Peter
Lang, Frankfurt 2005 pp. 201-212
“MCU Submission on the Assisted Dying Bill” in Modern Believing Vol.46
no.2 April 2005
“Jesus and the Status Quo” in Gregory Barker, Jesus in the
World’s Faiths Orbis, New York 2005 pp. 75-77
“A Contemporary Defence of the Concept of the Soul” The
Christian Parapsychologist June 2005
“John Hick” and “B.H. Streeter” in Dictionary
of Twentieth Century Philosophers Thoemes Press 2005
“Soul” in Douglas Davies and L. Mates, Encyclopedia of
Cremation Ashgate 2006 pp.376-377
“A Prospectively Studied Near-Death Experience with Corroborated
Out-of-Body Perceptions and Unexplained Healing” Journal of Near-death
Studies 2006
“The Significance of Rowland Williams ‘ in Modern Believing April
2006 and The Welsh Journal of Religious History Vol.1 2007
Main Past Publications
Christian Beliefs about Life after Death Macmillan 1976, SPCK
1978
Immortality or Extinction? Macmillan 1982 SPCK
1984
(Ed) Death and Immortality in the Religions of the World Paragon
1987
The Contribution of Religion to the Conflict in Northern Ireland University
of Kent 1987
(Co-Ed) Perspectives on Death and Dying The Charles Press
1989
(Ed) Religion, State and Society in Modern Britain Mellen 1989(Ed)
A John Hick Reader Macmillan 1990 ,(Ed.)
Ethics on the frontiers of Human Existence Paragon 1992
Co-ed) Facing Death University of Wales Press 1996,
The Contemporary Challenge of Modernist Theology University
of Wales Press 1998
