Dr Felicity Loughlin
Lecturer in the History of Modern Christianity
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Room 2.07
School of Divinity - City
- Edinburgh
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- EH1 2LX
Availability
I am happy to meet with any student at a mutually convenient time. Please get in touch by email to arrange an in-person or online meeting.
Background
I am a historian of modern Christianity, with particular expertise in the Scottish, British and European contexts. My research spans the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and is underpinned by an interest in the role of religion in shaping understandings of the self, society, and the wider world. My work to date has explored Christian encounters with non-Christian faiths and beliefs, the intersections between religious debate and scholarship, and Christian responses to cultural and intellectual change.
Born in Glasgow, I spent my childhood in Surrey and my adolescence in Ayr. I left the west coast in 2008 to complete an undergraduate degree in History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh. I moved to the Divinity School in 2012, where I completed a Masters in Theology in History. I remained at the University of Edinburgh for my doctoral research on the Scottish Enlightenment's engagement with global non-Abrahamic religions. I was awarded a PhD in History in 2018 and a monograph based on the thesis is in preparation for Oxford University Press.
After three years as a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, I returned to the University of Edinburgh in as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, where I began my current project on unbelief and the Scottish Christian landscape, c.1697-1914. I was appointed Lecturer in the History of Modern Christianity in 2022.
Qualifications
MA (Hons) History and Classics, MSc Theology in History, PhD in History (all awarded by the University of Edinburgh)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Treasurer of the Scottish Church History Society: https://www.scottishchurchhistory.org/
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Director of Recruitment
Undergraduate teaching
Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B
Postgraduate teaching
Creeds, Councils and Controversies
Religion and Enlightenment: The Birth of the Modern
Research summary
My research focuses on the history of modern Christianity, with a particular focus on the Scottish, British and European contexts.
Key Research Themes & Specialisms:
- Scottish Christian encounters with non-Christian faiths and beliefs
- Scottish Christian responses to intellectual and cultural change
- The intersections between Scottish religious debates and the history of scholarship
- Debates and relationships between Scotland's unbelievers and Christians