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
Professor Andrew Louth FBA
The history and theology of the Christian Church in Late Antiquity and in the Byzantine Empire; modern Eastern Orthodox theology
Professor Gavin Flood FBA
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
