Douglas J Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 365393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas J Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2666-158X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Well, cut a long story short’ – an interview with Professor Douglas Davies, FBA
Afterword: Play, Personhood and Digital Mortality
This Afterword echoes our editors' framing of this Special Issue as seeking to both sketch the 'state of the art' and indicate some 'future avenues' for research in digital death
Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism
why do we write books? Why did Joseph Smith write his, and why does Samuel Brown write on Smith writing his? I suppose this regressive query may sound mildly absurd coming from one academic to others, largely alert to career, pride, obligation and, optimistically, to the love of shared knowing. Perhaps I have written too many myself, read far more and—just now—for whatever reason, find this rhetorical question springing to mind. By contrast, it i…
Worldview Religious Studies
Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of ‘play’, and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values a…
Bereavement, Sacred-Secrecy and Dreams
WilAaron: Welsh Saints on the Mormon Trail: The Story of the Welsh Emigration to Salt Lake City during the Nineteenth Century. Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2019; p. 400
Sacrifice
Through ritual‐symbolic idioms of life and death, often grounded in reciprocal behavior related to supernatural agencies, sacrifices typically intensify core social values to foster individual and community well‐being following crisis or conflict. Speculative and ethnography‐grounded theories have played significant roles in the development of social science, especially anthropology. Predating anthropology's late nineteenth‐century birth, however…
Sacrifice
John Bowker, Religion Hurts: Why Religions Do Harm as Well as Good
E vans‐ P ritchard, E. E. (1902–73)
E. E. Evans‐Pritchard's ethnographies of African groups, notably the Azande and the Nuer, provided descriptive analyses of social organization; methods of coping with misfortune through witchcraft, oracles, magic, and sacrifice; and how these people interfaced their daily existence with perceived divinities. Such work assisted comparative studies of forms of rationality and critical analyses of sociological and psychological theories of religion,…
Everyone dies young: Time without age, by Marc Augé
In 11 brief chapters, this established French anthropologist offers ‘personal remarks’ on life and death. He worked in Africa; turned his eye to his own society, and then, aged around 80, looked at
Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, and Identity
This Special Issue is both experimental and comparative. It appropriates diverse disciplinary idioms from the distinctive fields our authors inhabit to focus on the ever-recurrent theme of the individual and the study of religion. Here the familiar topics of "belief", "practice" and "identity" come into conversation with each other from scholars in anthropology, sociology, African-American history, Asian religions, philosophy, religious studies, …
In pursuit of the good life: Aspiration and suicide in globalising South India
In pursuit of the good life: aspiration and suicide in globalising South India." Mortality, 22(1), pp. 89–90
Christopher Deacy, Christmas as Religion: Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred
Monstrosities: Religion, Identity and Belief
In the summer of 1816, a young woman of nineteen eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to Geneva, Switzerland
Emotions and Religious Dynamics
Mors Britannica: Life Style & Death Style in Britain Today
This anthropology–sociology of British religion aligns lifestyle and what it calls death-style; traditional and innovative forms of funeral and memorial serve as windows upon British life. Traditional cemetery and innovative woodland/green burials, cremation, ashes, and diversity of ritual leaders offer sources for analysing social change, religion, spirituality, and secular world views. Mortality and vitality as key biological dynamics transform…
Natural Burial and Cultural Memory
Three innovative individuals drive this chapter through their imaginative provision of UK funerary and memorial practice. Ken West fostered woodland, natural, green or ecological burial; David Childs’ dream-like vision led to the National Memorial Arboretum; Headmaster Anthony Hudson drove the building of a national memorial for the dead of the Falklands War at Pangbourne College. These exemplify bottom-up and top-down forms of social force, crea…
Making the Dead Visible: Problems and Solutions for “Big” Picture Approaches to the Past, and Dealing with Large “Mortuary” Datasets
W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death
Journal Article W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death Get access W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death, London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 253. £20/$30. ISBN 978 1 78023 265 2. Douglas J. Davies Douglas J. Davies University of Durham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 3, August 2015, Pages 657–659, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm…
Paul Badham, Making Sense of Death and Immortality
Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y – By Adam Possamai
Sociology, mortality and solidarity. An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman on death, dying and immortality
In offering a Mortality-focused foreword to Michael Hviid Jacobsen's valuable interview with the distinguished sociologist Zygmunt Bauman on, ‘death, dying and immortality’, I want to speak of boun
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture – By Nerina Rustomji. Awaiting the Heavenly Country, The Civil War and America's Culture of Death – By Mark S. Schantz. Death and the Afterl…
Emotions and identity in the social context of death dying and disposal
Emotions and identity in the social context of death dying and disposal." Mortality, 14(sup1), pp. S1–S2
Qualitative Research and the Question of Rigor
In this article, the authors discuss the issue of rigor in relation to qualitative social research. It takes a critical focus on the inadequacy of applying a quantitative concept of rigor to evaluate qualitative research. Informed through the researchers'own experience, suggestions are made for a concept of rigor that meets the needs of qualitative research more adequately. Incorporating a notion of ethics, the authors develop a cluster of terms …
Making the Dead Visible: Problems and Solutions for “Big” Picture Approaches to the Past, and Dealing with Large “Mortuary” Datasets
Afterword: Play, Personhood and Digital Mortality
This Afterword echoes our editors' framing of this Special Issue as seeking to both sketch the 'state of the art' and indicate some 'future avenues' for research in digital death
The notion of salvation in the comparative study of religions
(1978). The notion of salvation in the comparative study of religions. Religion: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 85-100
Sacrifice
Evans‐Pritchard, structuralism, and anthropological hermeneutics
(1983). Evans‐Pritchard, structuralism, and anthropological hermeneutics. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 85-101
Perils of Professionalism
Journal Article Perils of Professionalism, ed. by Donald B. Kraybill and Phyllis Pellman Good. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1982, 240 pp. $9.95 Get access Douglas James Davies Douglas James Davies University of Nottingham, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 4, Winter 1984, Page 394, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711303 Published: 01 December 1984
Spirituality, Churchmanship, and English Anglican Priests
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a major research project conducted in England concerning the organization of the Church of England in rural areas. Starting in 1988 this project, entitled the Rural Church Project, studied all Anglican clergy and a sample of laity in five English Dioceses to produce the most extensive study of religious organization and belief available in Britain. This paper focuses only upon one fraction of the …
Imagination playing with death: A review of the exhibition Midden in het leven staan wij in de dood
Imagination playing with death: A review of the exhibition Midden in het leven staan wij in de dood
(1996). Imagination playing with death: a review of the exhibition Midden in het leven staan wij in de dood . Mortality: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 323-326
The sacred crematorium
In this paper I consider ways in which one contemporary institution, the modern crematorium, may, increasingly, be helping to foster a sense of the sacred. Though conceived largely as an exercise in the history and phenomenology of religion the discussion also includes some empirical material from Britain which is interpreted anthropologically. The conclusion is more speculative and echoes earlier, and once fashionable, theories of the origin of …
Implicit Religion and Inter-faith Dialogue in Human Perspective
CLASSICS Revisited Robert Hertz: The social triumph over death
(2000). CLASSICS REVISITED Robert Hertz: The social triumph over death. Mortality: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 97-102
Qualitative Research and the Question of Rigor
In this article, the authors discuss the issue of rigor in relation to qualitative social research. It takes a critical focus on the inadequacy of applying a quantitative concept of rigor to evaluate qualitative research. Informed through the researchers'own experience, suggestions are made for a concept of rigor that meets the needs of qualitative research more adequately. Incorporating a notion of ethics, the authors develop a cluster of terms …
An Introduction to Mormonism
Review Article| November 01 2004 An Introduction to Mormonism Douglas J. Davies Douglas J. Davies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2004) 8 (2): 133–134. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.8.2.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site…
The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
Review Article| March 01 2005 The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory Douglas J. Davies Douglas J. Davies Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2005) 8 (3): 140–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
From elder to ancestor: Old age, death and inheritance in modern Korea
Mormon History, Text, Colour, and Rites
Mormonism's growth from its 1830 inception to its 2005 near twelve million world membership, has not only initiated a debate over whether, perhaps, it is likely to become the next world‐religion after Islam, 1 but has, in recent decades, also witnessed the publication of numerous books that help foster an interest in what is already becoming a distinctive field of study. Though none of the four books reviewed here constitutes an introductory over…
Classics revisited: Death, immortality, and Sir James Frazer
Sir James Frazer (1854–1941), prolific Victorian‐Edwardian British anthropologist whose comparative mythology The Golden Bough is still in print, collected much material on death. Here we consider
Emotions and identity in the social context of death dying and disposal
Emotions and identity in the social context of death dying and disposal." Mortality, 14(sup1), pp. S1–S2
Sociology, mortality and solidarity. An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman on death, dying and immortality
In offering a Mortality-focused foreword to Michael Hviid Jacobsen's valuable interview with the distinguished sociologist Zygmunt Bauman on, ‘death, dying and immortality’, I want to speak of boun
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture – By Nerina Rustomji. Awaiting the Heavenly Country, The Civil War and America's Culture of Death – By Mark S. Schantz. Death and the Afterl…
Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y – By Adam Possamai
Mors Britannica: Life Style & Death Style in Britain Today
This anthropology–sociology of British religion aligns lifestyle and what it calls death-style; traditional and innovative forms of funeral and memorial serve as windows upon British life. Traditional cemetery and innovative woodland/green burials, cremation, ashes, and diversity of ritual leaders offer sources for analysing social change, religion, spirituality, and secular world views. Mortality and vitality as key biological dynamics transform…
Natural Burial and Cultural Memory
Three innovative individuals drive this chapter through their imaginative provision of UK funerary and memorial practice. Ken West fostered woodland, natural, green or ecological burial; David Childs’ dream-like vision led to the National Memorial Arboretum; Headmaster Anthony Hudson drove the building of a national memorial for the dead of the Falklands War at Pangbourne College. These exemplify bottom-up and top-down forms of social force, crea…
Making the Dead Visible: Problems and Solutions for “Big” Picture Approaches to the Past, and Dealing with Large “Mortuary” Datasets
W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death
Journal Article W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death Get access W. M. Spellman, A Brief History of Death, London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 253. £20/$30. ISBN 978 1 78023 265 2. Douglas J. Davies Douglas J. Davies University of Durham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 3, August 2015, Pages 657–659, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm…
Paul Badham, Making Sense of Death and Immortality
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