Clair Linzey

{{short description|British theologian, ethicist, editor, and writer}}

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University of St Andrews (MA, PhD)
Harvard University (MST)

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Clair Susan Linzey is a British theologian, ethicist, editor, and writer. She is the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Linzey's research centres on animal theology and ethics, environmental ethics, systematic and feminist theology, and Christian ethics. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics and the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series.

Early life and education

Clair Susan Linzey{{Cite thesis |last=Linzey |first=Clair Susan |title=Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff |date=2020 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of St Andrews |url=https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/19812/ClairLinzeyPhDThesis.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y |doi=10.17630/10023-19812}} is the daughter of the theologian Andrew Linzey.{{Cite book|last=Valpey|first=Kenneth R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJO7DwAAQBAJ|title=Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics|publisher=Springer Nature|year=2019|isbn=978-3-030-28408-4|pages=xvii|language=en}} In 2004, she received an undergraduate Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she received several prizes.{{Cite web|title=Clair Linzey|url=https://ocbs.org/clair-linzey/|access-date=2020-07-10|website=Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies|language=en-GB}} Linzey received two scholarships to study for a Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 2008. She received her Doctor of Philosophy on the ecological theology of Leonardo Boff, with a particular focus on its relation to animals, also from St Andrews.

Career

Linzey is the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the director of their annual summer school, as well as a Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Dr Clair Linzey |url=https://www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-clair-linzey |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Wycliffe Hall |language=en}} She is also co-editor, with her father, of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series and the Journal of Animal Ethics.{{Cite web |title=Deputy Director |url=https://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/who-we-are/deputy-director/ |access-date=2020-07-10 |website=Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics |language=en-US}} Linzey specialises in animal theology and ethics, environmental ethics, systematic and feminist theology, and Christian ethics.{{Cite web |title=Clair Linzey, Ph. D. |url=https://gtfeducation.org/faculty-staff/clair-linzey-ph-d/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Graduate Theological Foundation |language=en-US}}

Bibliography

Books authored by Clair Linzey:

[https://www.routledge.com/Developing-Animal-Theology-An-Engagement-with-Leonardo-Boff/Linzey/p/book/9781032071572 Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff] (Routledge, 2021)

Books co-authored with Andrew Linzey:

An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Books co-edited with Andrew Linzey:

[https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p083198 Animal Ethics for Veterinarians] (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
[https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p082856 The Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments] (University of Illinois Press, 2018)
[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-36671-9 The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
[https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Religion-and-Animal-Ethics/Linzey-Linzey/p/book/9780367733148 The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics] (Routledge, 2018)
[https://www.routledge.com/Ethical-Vegetarianism-and-Veganism/Linzey-Linzey/p/book/9781138590991 Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism] (Routledge, 2018)
[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666924145/Animal-Ethics-and-Animal-Law Animal Ethics and Animal Law] (Lexington Books, 2023)
[https://academic.oup.com/book/45844?login=true Animal Theologians] (Oxford University Press, 2023)
[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666937947/The-Ethics-of-Fur-Religious-Cultural-and-Legal-Perspectives The Ethics of Fur: Religious, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives] (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=codE1fFZlfw Clair Linzey PhD - Animal Theology Keynote]
[https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/eco-activist/animal-ethics-veganism-qVuM_xv3W5e/ Animal Ethics & Veganism: Interview with Dr Clair Linzey from the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics]

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Category:21st-century British theologians

Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews

Category:Animal ethicists

Category:British animal rights scholars

Category:British book editors

Category:English vegetarianism activists

Category:Environmental ethicists

Category:Fellows of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

Category:Graduate Theological Foundation faculty

Category:Harvard Divinity School alumni