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Academic & Teaching staff

Mikel Burley, Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy

+44 (0)113 343 7504

Philosophy of Religion; Indian Religious and Philosophical Traditions; Philosophy and Film / Literature; Death, Illness and Emotion; Wittgenstein View full profile

Alistair McFadyen, Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology

+44 (0)113 34 33653

Theological anthropology and the doctrine of sin, especially in relation to contemporary secular thought and practice; theology and public life; policing, religion and theology; feminist theology View full profile

Seán McLoughlin, Senior Lecturer in Religion, Anthropology and Islam

+44 (0)113 343 3643

Religion, ethnicity, diaspora, identity. All aspects of the Muslim (especially South Asian heritage) presence in Britain. Ethnography of contemporary Muslim societies. View full profile

Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory

+44 (0)113 343 3650

Religion in social and cultural theory; embodiment, Christian theology and sociology; Durkheimian studies; problems of theory and method in the study of religion. View full profile

Rachel Muers, Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies

+44 (0)113 343 6748

Modern Christian thought; feminism, gender and theology; theological ethics, especially intergenerational responsibility and environment; Quaker theology. View full profile

Mel Prideaux, Teaching Fellow

+44 (0)113 3430461

Interfaith dialogue; Muslim-Christian relations; Islam in the UK; State and religion(s) in the UK; Fieldwork in Religious Studies View full profile

Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3651

Islamic Studies, especially Sufism and Islamic reform, dreaming and dream interpretation in Islam, religion in Ottoman Syria. View full profile

Johanna Stiebert, Biblical Studies Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 37454

Emotion terminology of the Hebrew Bible; Ideological sub-texts of prophetic Hebrew Bible literature; Reading Hebrew Bible texts in the light of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; View full profile

Emma Tomalin, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3658

Gender and Religion; Religion and Development; Religion and Environmentalism; Buddhism and Hinduism; South and South-East Asia View full profile

Kevin Ward, Senior Lecturer in African Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3641

Protestant Christian ecumenical cooperation in colonial Kenya. History and spirituality of the East African Revival movement, church-state relations in Uganda. View full profile