Tamsin Jones gained her B.A. (Honors) in Religious Studies from McGill University, and her M.T.S and Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School. She is fascinated by the gaps, tensions, and paradoxes in which religions delight. Her first book, A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness (Indiana University Press, 2011) focuses this interest through a comparative analysis of Christian traditions of apophasis, from the late antique period of the desert mystics to postmodern articulations of “un-saying.” She has published articles in the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy Today, Journal of the Academy of Religion, Journal of Religion, the Journal of Theology and Sexuality, Political Theology, Sophia, and Modern Theology. She is currently working on a second book tentatively entitled Sacralizing Excess: Trauma, Religion, and Phenomenology. 

In her teaching, she encourages her students to read closely and to think and write with clarity. She loves teaching in religious studies with its particular ability to render the familiar strange, and to enable the strange to become more familiar. 

Books:

• 2011. A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness, Series in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Merold Westphal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Recent Articles and Chapters:

• 2024. "Revelation and the Practices of Revelation," Journal for the Continental Philosophy of Religion 6. 
• 2024. "Incarnational Phenomenology," in Joseph Rivera and Joseph O'Leary (eds.), Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (Routledge).
• 2023. "No Longer a Spectator Only" in Brian Treanor and James Taylor (eds.),  Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney (Routledge).
• 2021. "Materialism, Social Construction, and Radical Empiricism: Debating the Status of "Experience' in the Study of Religion" in Horner and Romano (eds.), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Bloomsbury).
• 2021. "Can Victims Make Sense of Trauma?" Philosophy Today 65/4.
• 2021. "A Phenomenology of the Liturgy of Maundy Thursday," Religions 12/8.
• 2021. "The Political Theology of Jean-Luc Marion," Political Theology Network.
• 2021. "The Particular Sacrality of the Secular," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89/1.
• 2019. "Is Academic Theology an Answer to the Problem of Philosophy of Religion?" Journal of Religious and Cultural Theory.
• 2018. "Responsible Subjects: On the Ability to Respond to Transcendence," Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy 1.
• 2016. "Bearing Witness: Hope for the Unseen," Political Theology 17, no. 2.
• 2015. "New Materialism and the Study of Religion." Introduction to Religious Experience and New Materialism: Movement Matters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2014. “Traumatized Subjects: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the Ethics of Alterity.” Journal of Religion 94, no. 2.
• 2013. "The Material Conditions for Theorizing Maternality, or Why is it so difficult to think about being a mother?" Journal of Theology and Sexuality 19, no. 3.

• "50 for the Next 50" Honoree, Women at the Summit: 50 Years of Coeducation at Trinity College, 2020.
• Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement, 2018.
• Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2014.
• Derek Bok Center Award for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006.
• Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard Divinity School, 2007.
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada, 2004-2005.