Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA

Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
A photo of Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA standing in front of a bookcase.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
OBE, FBA, FLSW

Current post

Cardiff University Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Islam-UK Centre

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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 Hugh McLeod FBA

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