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 Michael Snape
Religion, war and society in the English-speaking world, c.1700 to the present day, with a particular focus on the experience of military service.
Professor Christopher Insole FBA
Christopher Insole's research interests are reinterpreting Kant’s relationship with, and challenge to, philosophical theology; rethinking the relationship between natural theology and the limits of reason, as these limits manifest in philosophy, theology, and psychotherapy.
