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 Sabine Schmidtke FBA
Islamic Studies, Islamic and Jewish Intellectual History, Judeo-Arabic, Geniza, Shiism (Twelver Shiism and Zaydism), Yemen, History of Libraries, Islamic Theology (kalam) and Philosophy, Islamic manuscripts, Bible in Arabic, Muslim reception of the Bible, History of Oriental Studies, Correspondences as a Historial Source
Professor David Fergusson FBA
The doctrines of creation and providence, relationship of church and state, engagement with the 'new atheism', and the history of Reformed theology, especially in Scotland
