Ursula King

Ursula King is professor emerita of theology and religious studies and senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Educated in Germany, France, India, and England, she has lectured all over the world and published numerous books and articles, especially on gender issues in religions, method and theory, modern Hinduism, interfaith dialogue, spirituality, and on the French thinker, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She has held several visiting chairs in the USA and Norway, and been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Edinburgh (1996), Oslo (2000), and Dayton, Ohio (2003). In 2000, she organized the Colston Research Symposium on “Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium” at the University of Bristol, and subsequently published its papers as a book (2001). Among more recent publications are the edited volume on Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2005) and The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for Meaning and Fulfilment (2009).

Biography and photo from the University of Bristol website.