McIntosh, Professor Esther

• Associate Head of School of Humanities: Religion, Politics and International Relations
• School of Humanities

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McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 and Ranawana, Anupama (2024) Silence is Complicity: Theological Failure in the Face of Genocide. International Journal of Public Theology, 18 (4). pp. 463-487.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 and Jagger, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-4755 (2024) Ritual and the Trans Body in the Church of England. Religion and gender. (In Press)

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2023) How are the Voluntarily Childless and the Involuntarily Infertile to Make Sense of Their Christian Faith? In: Davis, Dena, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics. Oxford University Press

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2023) Unmasking the Systemic Problem of Evil in Theology: A Feminist Critique. In: Grebe, Matthias and Grössl, Johannes, (eds.) T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil. Bloomsbury, pp. 630-640

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 and Jagger, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-4755 (2023) The Construction of Safe Space: Empowerment and the Perception of Vulnerability at Anglican Foundation Universities in England. Journal of Gender Studies, 33 (5). pp. 711-724.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2022) Blurring the Boundaries: Christianity, Feminism and Misogyny Off- and Online. In: Wabel, Thomas, Eberlein-Braun, Katharina and Stamer, Torben, (eds.) Space and Place as Topics for Public Theologies. Zurich, LIT, pp. 153-171

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2021) Gender in Religion, Religion in Society: The Agency and Identity of Christian Women. In: Starkey, Caroline and Tomalin, Emma, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society. Routledge, pp. 19-36

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2021) The Persistence of White Christian Patriarchy in a Time of Right-Wing Populism. In: Ralston, Joshua and Schmiedel, Ulrich, (eds.) The Spirit of Populism. Political and Public Theologies1 . Brill, pp. 177-201

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 and Jagger, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-4755 (2021) Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Staff and Students. Technical Report. York St John University, York.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2020) The Trauma of Mothers: Motherhood, Violent Crime and the Christian Motif of Forgiveness. In: O'Donnell, Karen and Cross, Katie, (eds.) Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture & Church in Critical Perspective. London, SCM Press, pp. 266-290

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2019) Public Theology, Populism and Sexism: The Hidden Crisis in Public Theology. In: Harasta, Eva and Sinn, Simone, (eds.) Resisting Exclusion: Global Theological Responses to Populism. LWF Studies (2019/0). Geneva, Lutheran World Federation, pp. 218-228

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2018) Living Religion: The Fluidity of Practice. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 79 (4). pp. 383-396.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2017) Learning to be human in a post-liberal era : revisiting a Macmurrian account of arts and ethical relationality. In: Wood, Benjamin J., (ed.) Renewing the self : contemporary religious perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, pp. 96-116

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2017) 'I Met God, She's Black': Racial, Gender and Sexual Equalities in Public Theology. In: Kim, Sebastian and Day, Katie, (eds.) A Companion to Public Theology. Brill, pp. 298-324

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353, MacDonald, Don and Sink, Chris (2016) Macmurray on Relationality: A Tool for Systems Theory? Philosophy and Theology, 28 (1). pp. 207-224.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2015) Why We Need the Arts: John Macmurray on Education and the Emotions. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (1). pp. 47-60.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2015) Belonging without Believing: Church as Community in an Age of Digital Media. International Journal of Public Theology, 9 (2). pp. 131-155.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2015) John Macmurray as a Scottish Philosopher: The Role of the University and the Means to Live Well. In: Graham, Gordon, (ed.) Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. A history of Scottish philosophy . Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 270-302

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2015) Building schools of character: learning to be human. Character Scotland.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2014) Issues in feminist public theology. In: Burns, S. and Monro, A., (eds.) Public Theology and the Challenge of Feminism. Routledge, pp. 63-74

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2011) John Macmurray’s religious philosophy: what it means to be a person. Ashgate

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2008) Philosophers, Politicians and Archbishops: Religious Reasons in the Public Sphere. International Journal of Public Theology, 2 (4). pp. 465-483.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2007) Religious voices in public places: John Macmurray on church and state. Journal of Scottish Thought, 1 (1). pp. 121-137.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2007) The concept of sacrifice: a reconsideration of the feminist critique. International journal of public theology, 1 (2). pp. 210-229.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2007) The possibility of a gender transcendent God: taking Macmurray forward. Feminist theology, 15 (2). pp. 236-255.

McIntosh, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1819-8353 (2007) Community and society: John Macmurray (1891-1976) and New Labour. In: Kim, Sebastian and Kollontai, Pauline, (eds.) Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in Context. T & T Clark, pp. 69-87