Professor Alec Ryrie FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.
Current post
Professor of the History of Christianity, Durham University; Professor of Divinity, Gresham College
Past appointments
Durham University Head of Department of Theology and Religion
2012 - 2015
University of Birmingham Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Modern History
1999 - 2006
Publications
The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Alec Ryrie - Published in 2017 by Routledge
Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World
Edited by Alec Ryrie and Tom Schwanda - Published in 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan
The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England
Alec Ryrie - Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press
The Origins of the Scottish Reformation
Alec Ryrie - Published in 2006 by Manchester University Press
The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation
Alec Ryrie - Published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press
The Beginnings of English Protestantism
Alec Ryrie and Peter Marshall - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press
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Professor Dr Claudia Rapp FBA
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