Alison Jasper

Alison Jasper was a teacher of Religious Education in a variety of English secondary schools before she received her PhD from Glasgow University for a thesis on feminist biblical hermeneutics and took up an academic position teaching Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Stirling University. Before her retirement in 2019, she was instrumental in establishing a master’s level programme in gender studies to which she contributed for a number of years as lecturer and tutor. She has published widely on topics relating to feminist biblical hermeneutics, feminist theology and feminist theory. Since retiring she has been an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling and has continued participating in research, writing and some teaching at master’s level.

As a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, she has served on both its Doctrine and its Liturgy Committees. In 2021 she headed up a small group that organized an online conference on gender and liturgy, Responding to the Sacred: Conversations between Liturgy and Gender. In 2023, the team organized a second online conference under the title of Responding to the Sacred: Inclusive Liturgies, Porous Walls. She is hoping to organize a follow-up event. She has visited Holy Rood House and Hilda House on many occasions, acting as a theological consultant, and, in 2022, participated in the annual Summer School, giving an address entitled, “A theology of hope for partial survival and flourishing in a damaged world”.