Professor Douglas Davies FBA
The anthropology and sociology of ritual, symbolism, belief, and emotions. Mormonism; mortality, and funerary practices of burial and cremation. The theology of death. The relationship between anthropology and theology
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
Centre for Death and Life Studies Director
2007 -
Durham University Professor of the Study of Religion
1997 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Rev Professor John Swinton FBA
Theology and mental health, theology of disability, dementia, spirituality health and healing, practical theology, qualitative research methods, ecclesiology and ethnography, end of life care, theodicy and the problem of evil.
