Phil Daughtry

Phil Daughtry, PhD, is Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Spirituality at Tabor College of Higher Education, Australia, where he teaches in contemporary spirituality and spiritual formation. Over the previous twelve years, Phil has been active in promoting conversations about the relationships between spirituality and youth work in Australia, England, New Zealand and Singapore, and has published contributing chapters and...See more

Phil Daughtry, PhD, is Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Spirituality at Tabor College of Higher Education, Australia, where he teaches in contemporary spirituality and spiritual formation. Over the previous twelve years, Phil has been active in promoting conversations about the relationships between spirituality and youth work in Australia, England, New Zealand and Singapore, and has published contributing chapters and articles on this topic. He was the primary initiator and facilitator of the Burning Conversations conference (2014) from which this book has emerged. Stuart Devenish, PhD, is the Director of Postgraduate Studies of the School of Ministry Theology and Culture at Tabor College of Higher Education, Australia. He is the author of Knowing Otherwise (2001), Seeing and Believing (2012), and Ordinary Saints (2016), and joint editor for Religion and Spirituality (2010) and Beyond Well-Being (2012). He has a strong interest in supervising research in areas related to the spiritual life with particular reference to religious identity, the meaning of transformative spiritual and religious experience, and spiritual formation. See less