Professor Paul Fiddes FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
University of Oxford Professor of Systematic Theology
2007 -
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Director of Research
2007 -
Past appointments
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Principal
1989 - 2007
St Peter’s College, University of Oxford Lecturer in Theology
1979 - 1985
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford Fellow in Christian Doctrine
1975 - 1989
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
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.
