Canon Dr Mukti Barton
- Position
- Part-time tutor in Black and Asian Theology and Bible and Liberation
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- Telephone
- 0121 452 2663
Mukti is passionate about scripture, liberation and justice. This passion comes from her own and other Black/Asian women’s experience of oppression.
Mukti has a wide experience of life as an Indian Christian born and brought up in a clergy family in West Bengal, as a clergy wife with two sons in England and eleven years as a USPG (the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) missionary family in Bangladesh where she became the founder director of an ecumenical women’s centre for doing theology from women’s perspective. Her PhD from the University of Bristol is based on Bangladeshi women’s theology. Her History (hons) degree was from Calcutta University.
She remains connected with Asian women’s theology through the Asian Women’s Resource Centre for Culture and Theology, based in Indonesia, and with Black and Asian people’s theology through the Black Theology Forum at Queens Foundation.
The areas of her interest are Black and Asian Liberation Theology and Women’s Theology; the Bible and Liberation; Ministry and Spirituality in Multicultural Britain; Theological Reflection on Colour, Gender, Sexuality, Disability and Class Issues; Theology and Power Issues; Indian Christianity and Spirituality; Black/Asian Saints; Justice Issues in Different Religions.