Dr. Jane Barter
Title: Professor; JMP Chair
Phone: 204-789-1453
Office: 4M34
Email: j.barter@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Dr. Jane Barter’s (she/her) research interests include political theology, contemporary, Christian thought, theopolitics, religion, and memory. Barter’s research bridges the fields of Christian theology, political theology, decolonial, and feminist thought. Her work engages Christian thought and history with contemporary ethical and political questions, with particular attention to the context of colonialism.
She has published three monographs, including her a recent book on witnessing to political atrocity, (Routledge. 2025). She recently co-edited (with Doris Kieser, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta) a special volume of the Journal of Moral Theology on the papal visit and apology to survivors of Residential Schools in Canada. She is also general editor of the forthcoming (2026) multi-volume T & T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology (Bloomsbury Press).
Teaching Areas:
Christianity, Religion and Gender, Religion and Political Theory.
Courses:
- Atheism, Skepticism and Religion (REL-2304)
- Early and Medieval Christianity (REL-2305)
- Modern Christianity (REL-2306)
- Religion and Moral Issues (REL-2425)
Research Interests:
Political Theology, Continental Philosophy of Religion, Memory Studies, Trauma Studies, Gender and Gendered Violence.
Publications:
PUBLICATIONS (since 2020)
Book
Barter, Jane. Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness. London: Routledge, 2025.
Edited Journals
Barter, Jane and Doris Kieser, “After the Papal Apology,” Journal of Moral Theology 12:1 (2023).
Barter, Jane and Jean-Pierre Fortin, “Circles of Conversation,” A Special Volume of Religious Studies and Theology 39:2 (2020).
Articles, Book Chapters, Encyclopaedia Entries
Andraos, Michel and Jane Barter, “A Sin Against God and Humanity: The Genocide of the Palestinian People and the Churches’ Silence,” Toronto Journal of Theology 40:2.
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Barter, Jane. “Christology: Postmodern Engagements.” In the Cambridge Companion to Christology. Eds. Timothy Pawl and Michael Peterson. Forthcoming.
Barter, Jane and Tapji Garba. “Decolonial Theology.” In the T & T Clark Encyclopedia of Theology: Engagements. Ed. Joel Looper. Forthcoming.
Barter, Jane. “Elizabeth Johnson.” In the T & T Clark Encyclopedia of Theology: Creation. Ed. Rebecca Copeland. Forthcoming.
_____. “Two Strikes: Or, Why I Write for Women in Theology.” In Women in Theology. Eds. Elissa Cutter and Allison Murray. New York: Paulist Press. Forthcoming.
_____. “George Lindbeck.” T & T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology. Eds. Philip Ziegler and R. David Nelson. Forthcoming.
_____. “Walking Apart and Walking Together: Public Perceptions of the Papal Apology and Visit.” Journal of Moral Theology 12:1 (2023): 81 – 89.
_______. “God Keep Our Land? Unsettling Christian Theology.” Toronto Journal of Theology 38:2 (November 2022): 167-177.
_____. “Sex and Gender.” In The Edinburgh Critical History of Twentieth-century Theology.
Ed. Philip G. Ziegler. 315 - 332. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
_____. “When Sorry Isn’t Good Enough: The Displaced Christology of Canada’s 2008 Apology.” Modern Believing 62:3 (2021): 252-261.
Barter, Jane and David Driedger. “Getting Paid and Paying Attention: Basic Income, Theology, and Economics in a Time of Pandemic.” Religious Studies and Theology 40 (2021): 106 -121.
Barter, Jane. “Those We Do Not Know”: Thinking as Church About Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Critical Theology. (Spring 2020): 2 - 6.
_____. “Speaking About Her Just Might Heal: Witnessing to Canada's Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women.” In Terrors of Injustice: Gender Violence and the Ethics of
Shame. Edited by Shé Hawke and Lenart Škof. 3- 18. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.