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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
Website
https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/staff/profile/?id=663

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 David Shulman FBA

Pre-modern South Asian history and cultural history; languages and literatures of southern India (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada); Sanskrit language and literature; Carnatic music; history of religion in South India; Tamil Islam; South Asian poetics; Sri Lankan Tamil

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Professor Paul Fiddes FBA

Modern theology; doctrine in the context of ideas of wisdom and suffering; the relation of theology to the philosophy and creative arts of late-modern culture, particularly in interface with literature

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Professor Guy G Stroumsa FBA

Early Christianity, Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Judaism and the history of religions in late antiquity. Historiography of religion and the emergence and development of the comparative study of religion in modern times

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