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 Judith Lieu FBA
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
Revd Professor Sarah Coakley FBA
Historical and systematic theology; philosophy of religion; theology and the biological sciences ('natural theology'); theology and the social sciences; gender, 'race', and religion
Professor Almut Hintze FBA
The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
