Professor Francis Clooney FBA

Classical Hindu scriptural interpretation, particularly ritual Mimamsa and theological Vedanta traditions, and Srivaisnava devotional tradition; comparative theology, grounded in Hindu-Christian studies; Catholic missionary traditions in India
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Religion

Current post

Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Parkman Professor of Divinity and Comparative Theology

Publications

His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence

Francis Clooney - Published in 2013 by Stanford University Press,

Carefully Uncertain: The Limits of Clarity at Interreligious Borders Common Knowledge

Francis Clooney - Published in 2012, vol 18.2, pp 312-324 by Duke University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Alec Ryrie FBA

Alec Ryrie is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He is interested in the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion, and has written on subjects including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer, formal and informal. He is currently researching the early history of global Protestant missions. He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and (in 2019-20) president of the Ecclesiastical History Society. He is also a licensed Reader in the Church of England.

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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

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