Nathan C. J. Hood
Hope Trust Postdoctoral Fellow
- School of Divinity
Contact details
Background
Having grown up in Oxford and Birmingham, I moved to Edinburgh in 2012 to undertake an MA with Joint Honours in Philosophy and Theology, which I completed in 2016. The following academic year I completed an MTh in Theology in History at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017 I began a PhD in the History of Christianity. In August 2020 I was awarded a doctorate for my thesis '‘Let everyone examine themselves’: Radical Emotional Reflexivity in Scottish Reformed Protestantism, 1590-1640'. Currently, I am working as the Hope Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, a two year position.
Undergraduate teaching
Emotion, Spirituality, and Mysticism in Early Modern Christianity
Research summary
Early Modern Scottish Protestantism is the primary focus of my research. In particular, I am interetested in exploring how Scottish Protestants thought about and experienced their passions and affections in their religious piety. This involves exploring the language and concepts Scots used to categorise their psychosomatic experiences, analysing the affective dimension found in liturgical, autobiographical, and poetic texts, and exploring themes such as holy terror, assurance, mysticism, and self-examination.
Current research interests
Recently, my research has focussed upon the affective dimension of music in early modern Scottish Protestant. This topic has been explored in two directions. First, I have been engaging with the ways in which Scottish Protestants thought about and experienced psalm-singing, in public and private worship. Second, my work has interrogated the boundaries and ambiguous relationship between sacred and secular music in early modern Scotland, particularly in relation to religious education at a parish level.Research activities
-
"Wings of the Soul": Moderating emotion in the preaching of Hugh Binning (1627-53)
(18 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800102293.012
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Metrical psalm-singing and emotion in Scottish Protestant affective piety, 1560-1650
In:
Reformation & Renaissance Review, vol. 23, pp. 151-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2021.1922070
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
[Review of] Alexander Broadie (ed.), Scottish philosophy in the seventeenth century
(3 pages)
In:
Scottish Church History, vol. 50, pp. 61-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/sch.2021.0044
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
‘O come, let us sing unto the Lord’: Scottish Reformed sacred songs and modern church music
In:
Macrina Magazine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Corporate conversion ceremonies: The presentation and reception of the National Covenant
(18 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxhrkwh.7
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Facing death rightly: Advice from a seventeenth-century Scottish poet
In:
Macrina Magazine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The polemical use of Islam by 16th- and 17th-century Scottish Protestants
Research output: › Web publication/site (Published) -
Recovering Puritan theology
In:
Macrina Magazine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The first English Quran translation: Scotland’s early polemic in Christian-Muslim encounter
Research output: › Web publication/site (Published) -
[Review of] Aaron Clay Delinger (ed.), Reformed orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish theology 1560-1775. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
(3 pages)
In:
Scottish Church History, vol. 48, pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/sch.2019.0016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Sin, grace, and free will in medieval and reformation thought
(2 pages)
In:
Expository Times, vol. 131, pp. 35-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0014524619863968
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)