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Tim Hutchings

Associate Professor of Religious Ethics, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Dr Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion and Religious Education. His PhD (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churches. His subsequent work has included postdoctoral fellowships at Durham University and The Open University (UK) and Umea University and Stockholm University (Sweden), studying topics ranging from the Bible as a digital text to death and mourning in online communities. He joined the 糖心原创 in 2018.

Expertise Summary

Dr Hutchings is interested in the relationship between religion, media and culture, with particular attention to digital forms of Christianity. His research has included studies of online worship; digital evangelism and formation; online community; digital publishing and e-reading; apps and games; and death and dying. He also studies the teaching of Religious Education in primary and secondary schools, and works with the national organisation TRS-UK to build better links between schools and universities. His teaching focuses on religious ethics, media ethics, the study of religion, and research methods.

Teaching Summary

Dr Hutchings teaches undergraduate courses in "Religion, Media and Ethics" and "Abraham's Children" (an introduction to method and theory in the study of religion, with particular attention to… read more

Research Summary

Dr Hutchings researches widely across the field of religion, media and culture. His current studies include attention to Christian videogames, online worship, Christian responses to the Covid-19… read more

Recent Publications

  • TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., 2021. De Gruyter.
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and KAREN O'DONNELL, 2021. . In: TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., Christianity and Digital Humanities: An Introduction De Gruyter. 281-300
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, 2021. . In: TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., Christianity and Digital Humanities: An Introduction De Gruyter. 1-20
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2020. . In: KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER and XENIA ZEILER, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism Routledge. 46-61

Dr Hutchings teaches undergraduate courses in "Religion, Media and Ethics" and "Abraham's Children" (an introduction to method and theory in the study of religion, with particular attention to religious pluralism and interfaith contact). His teaching experience includes classes in social-scientific research methods, death studies, popular culture and digital media.

Dr Hutchings is available to supervise graduate research on issues related to: religion, media and culture; digital religion; the sociology of religion; interfaith relations; religious media ethics; religion and popular culture; religion and journalism; or the study of RE/Religion and Worldviews teaching.

Current Research

Dr Hutchings researches widely across the field of religion, media and culture. His current studies include attention to Christian videogames, online worship, Christian responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, and religious journalism.

He is also researching the shift to "religion and worldviews" in RE teaching in England, including studies of worldview as an approach, teaching worldviews in the classroom, and teacher responses to the worldview debate.

Future Research

Dr Hutchings is developing a multi-religious research programme exploring how communities think ethically about media and technology. His research explores three questions: How do religious communities use digital media to teach ethical principles? What ethical principles guide religious communities in developing a healthy relationship to media use? And how do religious communities understand the positive and negative contributions of media to a flourishing society?

  • TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., 2021. De Gruyter.
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and KAREN O'DONNELL, 2021. . In: TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., Christianity and Digital Humanities: An Introduction De Gruyter. 281-300
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, 2021. . In: TIM HUTCHINGS and CLAIRE CLIVAZ, eds., Christianity and Digital Humanities: An Introduction De Gruyter. 1-20
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2020. . In: KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER and XENIA ZEILER, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism Routledge. 46-61
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, KWABENA ASAMOAH-GYADU, GIULIA EVOLVI and SAM HAN, 2020. Religion, Media and Digital Culture. 9(2), 1
  • CELINE BENOIT, TIM HUTCHINGS and RACHAEL SHILLITOE, 2020. Religious Education Council.
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2019. Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 14(9), 8
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2019. "Who Do You Remember?" Religion, Facebook and Existential Media. In: TAMARA KOHN, MARTIN GIBBS, BJORN NANSEN and LUKE VAN RYN, eds., Residues of Death: Disposal Reconfigured Routledge. 52-66
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2019. Secularism and Nonreligion. 8, 7
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2019. . In: ALPHIA POSSAMAI-INESEDY and ALAN NIXON, eds., The Digital Social: Religion and Belief De Gruyter. 110-128
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2019. . In: GEORGE D. CHRYSSIDES and STEPHEN E. GREGG, eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook to 糖心原创ing Christians Bloomsbury.
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and KATYA LINDEN, 2018. Tourists at Chernobyl: Existential Meaning and Digital Media. In: MATTIAS FRIHAMMAR and HELAINE SILVERMAN, eds., Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice Routledge. 209-222
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2018. Digital Futures of Religion Journalism. In: YOEL COHEN, ed., Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World Peter Lang. 91-108
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2018. . In: JONAS IDESTROM, ed., What Really Matters: Scandinavian Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography Pickwick. 227-246
  • TIM HUTCHINGS, 2017. Routledge.
  • TIM HUTCHINGS and JOANNE MCKENZIE, eds., 2017. Materiality and the 糖心原创 of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred Routledge.
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2017. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION. 32(2), 205-219
  • HUTCHINGS, TIMOTHY, 2017. JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA. 61(1), 90-107
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM and MCKENZIE, JOANNE, 2017. Introduction: The Body of St Cuthbert. In: TIM HUTCHINGS and JOANNE MCKENZIE, eds., Materiality and the 糖心原创 of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred Routledge. 1-13
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2017. Augmented graves and virtual Bibles: Digital media and material religion. In: TIM HUTCHINGS and JOANNE MCKENZIE, eds., Materiality and the 糖心原创 of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred Routledge. 85-99
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2015. STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES. 44(4), 423-440
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2015. Digital Humanities and the 糖心原创 of Religion. In: SVENSSON, PATRICK and GOLDBERG, DAVID THEO, eds., Between Humanities and the Digital MIT Press. 283-294
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2015. Now the Bible Is an App: Digital Media and Changing Patterns of Religious Authority. In: MARCUS MOBERG, SOFIA SJO and KENNET GRANHOLM, eds., Religion, Media, and Social Change Routledge. 143-161
  • GELFGREN, STEFAN and HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2014. The Virtual Construction of the Sacred: Representation and Fantasy in the Architecture of Second Life Churches NORDIC JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY. 27(1), 59-73
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2014. The Dis/Embodied Church: Worship, New Media and the Body. In: VINCETT, GISELLE, ed., Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies 37-57
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2013. Death, Emotion and Digital Media. In: DOUGLAS DAVIES and NATHANIEL WARNE, eds., Emotions and Religious Dynamics 191-211
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2012. Wiring Death: Dying, Grieving and Remembering on the Internet. In: DOUGLAS DAVIES and CHANG-WON PARK, eds., Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines 43-58
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2012. Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology. 6(2), 233-245
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2012. I am Second: New Media and Christian Storytelling Australian Journal of Communication. 39(1), 71-86
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2011. Contemporary Religious Community and the Online Church INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. 14(8), 1118-1135
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2010. Journal for the Academic 糖心原创 of Religion. 23(3), 325-345
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2010. Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 4, 63-86
  • HUTCHINGS, TIM, 2007. Studies in World Christianity. 13(3), 243-260

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