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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, 今日黑料. Before coming to Biola, 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
  • 鈥淩epliche alla discussione su A Cultural History of Democracy,鈥 Thompson, T. Brooking T., Eugenio F. Biagini, Anna Plassart and Michael Mosher, Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento, July-December 2023.
  • 鈥淩eligion, Violence, and Apocalypse in the Thought of H. G. Wells,鈥 Thompson, T., Science Fiction Studies, March 2022.
  • 鈥淭he Christian Critique of Orientalism and the Augustinian Tradition,鈥 Thompson, T., Near East School of Theology Theological Review, April 2017.
  • 鈥淐onducting the Conversation: Insights from the Historical and Theological Contextualization of Edward Said's Orientalism,鈥 Thompson, T., Muslim World, Special Issue: New Conversations in Islamic and Christian Political Thought, April 2016.
  • 鈥淢aking 鈥楳odern鈥 Libya: The King and Anderson,鈥 Thompson, T., History Today, December 2011.
  • 鈥淐overt Operations, British Views of Islam and Anglo-Sanusi Relations in North Africa, 1940-45,鈥 Thompson, T., Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, March 2009.
  • 鈥淭he Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty and the Evangelical Conscience in Nineteenth-Century Britain,鈥 Thompson, T. Journal of Religious History, January 2009.

Book Chapters

  • 鈥淣orman Anderson, Islam, and Religious Freedom in Nigeria,鈥 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.
  • 鈥淩eligion and the Principles of Political Obligation,鈥 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.
  • 鈥淓thnicity, Race, and Nationalism,鈥 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.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 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.
  • 鈥淭he Amazigh in post-Revolution Libya: A Century of Struggle,鈥 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 鈥淐onspiracy Theory without a Scapegoat: The Grail Myth and UFOs in Christopher M眉nch鈥檚 The 11th Green.鈥 June 2025.
  • American Society of Church History Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Presented on 鈥淪trange Luminous Phenomena, Men-in-Black, and the Mysterious Ministry of Mary Jones in the Welsh Revival.鈥 January 2025.
  • Charles Malik Institute Conference, The Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, D.C. Presented on 鈥淩eformulating America鈥檚 Political and Cultural Footprint in the Near and Middle East: Charles Malik and Edward Said on Affirmation and Critique in the Liberal Arts Tradition.鈥 September 2024.
  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Meeting, Universidad Iberoamericana/Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico. Presented on 鈥淪uperhumans, Mimetic Desire, and the Renewal of the Humanities.鈥 June 2024.
  • Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Meeting, Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France. Presented on 鈥淥n Shakespeare and Flying Saucers: Indifferent Lovers, Elusive Apparitions, and High Strangeness in the UFO Phenomenon." June 2023

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