Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- OBE, FBA, FLSW
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
Cardiff University Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Islam-UK Centre
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert P Gordon FBA
The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: the ancient near eastern context; the Hebrew text and the ancient versions; exegesis and theology; the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in Jewish and Christian tradition.
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
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.
