Rachel Mann
The Reverend Canon Rachel Mann | |
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Area Dean of Bury and Rossendale | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Manchester |
In office | 2021–present |
Orders | |
Ordination | 2005 (deacon) 2006 (priest) |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 February 1970 |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Profession | Priest Author |
Alma mater | Lancaster University Queen's College, Birmingham Manchester Metropolitan University |
Rachel Mann (born 1970) is a British Anglican priest, poet and feminist theologian.[1] She is a trans woman who writes, speaks and broadcasts on a wide range of topics including gender, sexuality and religion.[2]
Early life and education[]
Mann was born in 1970.[3] She grew up in Worcestershire, in the village of Hartlebury, and attended Stourport-On-Severn High School.[4] Between 1988 and 1991, she studied Philosophy at Lancaster University and completed an M.A. at the same university from 1992 to 1993. She studied for a PhD in Philosophy at Lancaster and was Teaching Fellow from 1994 to 1996.[5] From 2003 to 2005, she trained for ordained ministry at Queen's College, Birmingham, an ecumenical theological college.[3] She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from The Manchester Writing School[6] and she undertook postgraduate studies in the Bible and 19th-Century literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.[7] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The representation of fecundity and barrenness in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and the Bible: a critical and creative interrogation of a Christian-feminist poetics", and was completed in 2017.[8]
Ordained ministry[]
Mann was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2005 and as a priest in 2006.[3] She served her curacy at St Matthew's Church, Stretford in the Diocese of Manchester.[3] Between 2008 and 2017, she was Priest-in-Charge at the Church of St Nicholas, Burnage, before being appointed its Rector in 2018.[3] Between 2009 and 2017, she was also Resident Poet at Manchester Cathedral. In 2017, she was made an honorary canon of Manchester Cathedral.[3] Between February 2018 and the end of its extended quinquennium in July 2021, she was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England, having been elected by the clergy of the Diocese of Manchester.[9] In June 2021, she left St Nicholas Burnage to become full-time Area Dean of Bury and Rossendale.[10]
Views[]
Mann belongs to the modern Catholic tradition of the Church of England, though she was brought up an Evangelical-Charismatic Christian. She supports the full inclusion of the LGBT people in the church.[7] Since 2020, Mann is a patron of the Open Table Network, an ecumenical Christian community for LGBT people and their allies.[11]
Author[]
She is the author of Dazzling Darkness: Gender, Sexuality, Illness & God (Glasgow: Wild Goose 2012) and The Risen Dust: Poems and Stories of Passion & Resurrection (Glasgow: Wild Goose 2013), both published by the publishing arm of the Iona Community. Mann is also a contributor to Fear and Friendship: Anglicans Engaging With Islam (Continuum 2012) and several books on liturgical theology, including Presiding Like a Woman (SPCK 2010). Her book about the First World War and Ritual, Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory & God (London: D.L.T. 2017) was shortlisted for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing.
In 2018, she was appointed Visiting Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing and English at the , Manchester Metropolitan University.[12] She is also a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College.[13]
In 2019, Carcanet published her debut full poetry collection, A Kingdom of Love. The collection was Highly Commended in the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry. [14] In 2020, her debut novel , ‘’The Gospel of Eve’’, was published by D.L.T.
Mann is a regular contributor to The Church Times and contributes to BBC Radio 2’s Pause For Thought and BBC Radio 4's The Daily Service and . She also writes about progressive music, metal and folk for Prog Magazine, an offshoot of Classic Rock Magazine, and The Quietus.
Selected works[]
- Mann, Rachel (2010). "Presiding from the broken middle". In Slee, Nicola; Burns, Stephen (eds.). Presiding like a Woman: Feminist Gestures for Christian Assemblies. London: SPCK Publishing. pp. 133–139. ISBN 978-0281061860.
- Mann, Rachel (2012). Dazzling Darkness: Gender, Sexuality, Illness & God. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications. ISBN 978-1849522410.
- Mann, Rachel (2012). "The importance of offence: satire, the Church of England and Islam". In Ward, Frances; Coakley, Sarah (eds.). Fear and friendship: Anglicans engaging with Islam. London: Continuum. pp. 91–104. ISBN 978-1441101495.
- Mann, Rachel (2013). The Risen Dust: Poems and Stories of Passion & Resurrection. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications. ISBN 978-1849522793.
- Mann, Rachel (2015). A Star-Filled Grace: Worship and Prayer Resources for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications. ISBN 978-1849524421.
- Mann, Rachel (2017). Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God. London: Darton, Longman & Todd. ISBN 9780232532784.
- Mann, Rachel (2018). From Now On: A Lent Course on Hope and Redemption in The Greatest Showman. London: Darton, Longman & Todd. ISBN 9780232533927.
- Mann, Rachel (2019). In The Bleak Midwinter: Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti. London: Canterbury Press. ISBN 9781786221629.
- Mann, Rachel (2019). A Kingdom Of Love. Manchester: Carcanet. ISBN 9781784108571.
- Mann, Rachel (2020). Christina Rossetti: New Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet. ISBN 9781784109066.
- Mann, Rachel (2020). Love's Mysteries: The Body, Grief, Precariousness and God. London: Canterbury Press. ISBN 9781786222817.
- Mann, Rachel (2020). The Gospel of Eve. London: Darton, Longman & Todd. ISBN 9780232534603.
References[]
- ^ Interview with Faith in Feminism
- ^ Rachel Mann interviewed in OutNorthWest Magazine June/July 2013
- ^ a b c d e f "Rachel Mann". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ | https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/19072/rachel-mann-i-was-only-able-to-find-god-after-i-had-transitioned-%7C}}
- ^ | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/rachel-mann-self-evidently-woman-imglad-man/%7C}}
- ^ | https://www.manchesterwritingschool.co.uk/writers/rachel-mann%7C}}
- ^ a b "Candidate: Rev'd Canon Dr Rachel Mann" (PDF). Diocese of Manchester. January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ Mann, Rachel (2017). The representation of fecundity and barrenness in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and the Bible: a critical and creative interrogation of a Christian-feminist poetics. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library Board.
- ^ "Rachel Mann elected to General Synod". Diocese of Manchester. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "Seven Full-Time Area Deans Appointed". Diocese of Manchester. 26 February 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Meet Our Patrons - Rachel Mann in conversation with Alex Clare-Young". Open Table Network. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "Rachel Mann | Our Writers and Experts | Manchester Writing School".
- ^ "Rachel Mann | Sarum College, Christian Education and Conference Venue in Salisbury, England".
- ^ "Forward Book of Poetry".
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