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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Cambridge
  • M.A., Wheaton College
  • B.A., Kansas State University

Biography

Todd M. Thompson is Associate Professor of History at Torrey Honors College, 51蹤獲. Before coming to 51蹤獲, Thompson completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge and spent four years teaching at Qatar University in the Middle East. He is interested in global Christianity, the history of Christianity's relationship to other religions, historical connections between violence and religion, the pursuit of the transcendent in the modern world and histories of the impossible/unknown.

Affiliations

  • American Society of Church History
  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion

Publications (Selected)

Books

  • A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire, Vol. 5, A Cultural History of Democracy, ed. Thompson T. and Brooking, T. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
  • Sir Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernise Islam, Thompson, T. (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2018).
Articles
  • Repliche alla discussione su A Cultural History of Democracy, Thompson, T. Brooking T., Eugenio F. Biagini, Anna Plassart and Michael Mosher, Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento, July-December 2023.
  • Religion, Violence, and Apocalypse in the Thought of H. G. Wells, Thompson, T., Science Fiction Studies, March 2022.
  • The Christian Critique of Orientalism and the Augustinian Tradition, Thompson, T., Near East School of Theology Theological Review, April 2017.
  • Conducting the Conversation: Insights from the Historical and Theological Contextualization of Edward Said's Orientalism, Thompson, T., Muslim World, Special Issue: New Conversations in Islamic and Christian Political Thought, April 2016.
  • Making Modern Libya: The King and Anderson, Thompson, T., History Today, December 2011.
  • Covert Operations, British Views of Islam and Anglo-Sanusi Relations in North Africa, 1940-45, Thompson, T., Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, March 2009.
  • The Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty and the Evangelical Conscience in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Thompson, T. Journal of Religious History, January 2009.

Book Chapters

  • Norman Anderson, Islam, and Religious Freedom in Nigeria, in The Gospel and Religious Freedom: Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement, Thompson, T., ed. Bebbington, D. (Baylor University Press, 2023), pp. 147-65.
  • Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation, in A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age, Vol. 6, A Cultural History of Democracy, Thompson, T. and Biagini, E., ed. Biagini, E. and Gerstle, G. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), pp. 107-27.
  • Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism, in A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire, Vol. 5, A Cultural History of Democracy, Thompson, T., Smith J., and Brooking, T., ed. Brooking, T. and Thompson, T. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), pp. 139-60.
  • Introduction, in A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire, Vol. 5, A Cultural History of Democracy, Thompson, T., ed. Brooking, T. and Thompson, T. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), pp. 1-15.
  • The Amazigh in post-Revolution Libya: A Century of Struggle, in Middle East Minorities and the Arab Spring, Thompson, T. and Bouandel, B., ed. Nasrallah, T. and Parker, K.S. (Gorgias Press, 2017), pp. 45-78.
  • "Charles Malik and the Christian Critique of Orientalism in Lebanon and Britain, 1945-1956," in Christians and Religious Plurality, Thompson, T., ed. Doran, J., Methuen, C. and Alexandra Walsham (Boydell and Brewer, 2015), pp. 350-65.
  • "Albert Hourani, Christian Minorities and the Spiritual Dimension of Britain's Problem in Palestine, 1938-1947," in Christians and the Middle East Conflict, Thompson, T., ed. Rowe, P. Dyck, J. and Zimmermann, J. (Routledge, 2014), pp. 66-83.

Presentations

  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Meeting, Australian Catholic University, Rome, Italy. Presented on Conspiracy Theory without a Scapegoat: The Grail Myth and UFOs in Christopher M羹nchs The 11th Green. June 2025.
  • American Society of Church History Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Presented on Strange Luminous Phenomena, Men-in-Black, and the Mysterious Ministry of Mary Jones in the Welsh Revival. January 2025.
  • Charles Malik Institute Conference, The Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, D.C. Presented on Reformulating Americas Political and Cultural Footprint in the Near and Middle East: Charles Malik and Edward Said on Affirmation and Critique in the Liberal Arts Tradition. September 2024.
  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Meeting, Universidad Iberoamericana/Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico. Presented on Superhumans, Mimetic Desire, and the Renewal of the Humanities. June 2024.
  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Meeting, Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France. Presented on On Shakespeare and Flying Saucers: Indifferent Lovers, Elusive Apparitions, and High Strangeness in the UFO Phenomenon." June 2023

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