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Graham Ward (born 1955) is a priest of the Church of England and currently the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics and the Head of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics (1998–2009) and Senior Fellow in Religion and Gender (1997–1998) at the university. Prior to this he was, successively, a chaplain and fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, a part-time lecturer at the University of Birmingham and the Dean and Director of Studies for Theology at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1990 and priest in 1991. Ward's appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford is expected to take effect from 1 October 2012. Ward has engaged in different fields of theology (especially postmodern theology and other disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, gender studies and Queer Theory. He has written on the theology of language, postmodernism, cultural analysis and christology. His contemporary research focuses on Christian social ethics, political theory and cultural hermeneutics. He is editor of three book series: Radical Orthodoxy, Christian Theology in Context and Illuminations: Religion & Theory . Books and edited volumes Barth, Derrida and the language of theology Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory The Postmodern God: a Theological Reader The Certeau Reader Radical Orthodoxy: a New Theology Cities of God True Religion The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice Christ and Culture Religion and Political Thought The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens Theology and Masculinity