Affiliated lecturers

Dr Jeffrey W Bailey

Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity; Tutor in Public Theology, Westcott House; Acting Director of Studies (2008-09), Jesus College

Courses taught this academic year

Dr Bailey supervises the following undergraduate papers: Philosophy of Religion and Ethics (A8), Study of Theology I (B8), and Political Thought and the Christian Tradition (D2f). For the Cambridge BTh degree, he lectures for the following classes: The Christian God (BTh 7), Public Theology (BTh 25), and Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Encounter (BTh23). He also supervises MPhil students in areas of politics and religion.

Research interests, publications and other activities

Dr Bailey's particular areas of interest include the relationship between theological reasoning, politics and interfaith relations. He currently serves as Chairman-in-Residence at the Centre for Social Justice, a political think tank in London, where he oversees policy work in social cohesion. He has been a consultant with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations, has worked with the Clinton Global Initiative on religious conflict, and is the Hon Secretary of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK).

Previous to coming to Cambridge he studied at Duke University in the United States. He is currently at work on a Reader in Contemporary Political Theology (co-edited with William T. Cavanaugh and Craig Hovey), to be published by Eerdmans in 2010, and recently co-edited a special issue on religion and international relations for the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Contact details

Westcott House
Jesus Lane
Cambridge
CB5 8BP

Tel: t +44 (0)1223 741 007 f +44 (0)1223 741 002
Email: jwb39@cam.ac.uk