Professor Douglas Pratt

Professor Douglas Pratt

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Team Leader, East, South, South-East Asia and Oceania
Section Editor, East Asia and Oceania

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Douglas Pratt is Honorary Professor, Theological and Religious Studies Programme, School of Humanities, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Biography

BA (Auck & Waikato), MA (Auck), BD (Otago), LTh (Hons) (NZ), PhD (St Andrews), DTheol (MCD)

Douglas Pratt is the New Zealand Associate of the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations – Asia Pacific and an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was Visiting Lecturer in Christian–Muslim Relations at the University of Birmingham, UK (2004) and a Visiting Honorary Research Fellow and Guest Lecturer in Issues in Interfaith Relations at Ripon College Cuddesdon and the University of Oxford (2005-6). He was also Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC (2010), and Visiting Professor in Systematic and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland (2011).

An ordained Anglican priest and Canon Theologian Emeritus of the Waikato Diocese in New Zealand, Dr Pratt was honoured by the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) in 2007 with an inaugural Harmony Award for meritorious service to the Muslim community. He has twice chaired the National Interfaith Forum of New Zealand.

Publications

Most recent sole-authored book – Being Open, Being Faithful: The Journey of Interreligious Dialogue (2014).

Other published works include – The Church and Other Faiths: The World Council of Churches, the Vatican and Interreligious Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2010); The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue (2005). He has co-authored with Gary Bouma (Uni. of Monash) and Rod Ling (Uni. of Manchester) Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: National Case Studies (2010).

Recent edited books – (with Virginie Andre) Religious Citizenships and Islamophobia (2016); (with John Hoover, John Davies and John Chesworth) The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas (2015); (with Angela Berlis) From Encounter to Commitment: Interreligious Experience and Theological Engagement (2015); Interreligious Engagement and Theological Reflection: Ecumenical Explorations (2014); and (with David Cheetham and David Thomas) Understanding Interreligious Relations (2013).