Religious Studies
Religious Studies at Liverpool
The University of Liverpool boasts a large number of experts in the critical study of religion based in over eleven departments across the university.
Our particular strengths include the study of religion in the near East (ancient and modern), European Christianities, sacred space, literature and theology, religion and conflict, and religion and society.
We run regular lectures and events organized by the Ancient Religions Research Group, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Religious Cultures Research Cluster, and the Research Group on Religion, Ethics and Practical Philosophy.
School of the Arts
Architecture
Ataa Alsalloum (Isalmic architecture)
Soumyen Bandyopadhyay (Islamic architecture and art in Arabia)
Andrew Compton (multifaith spaces)
Nick Webb (church architecture)
English
Matthew Bradley (late-Victorian religion, William James)
Simon Marsden (literature and theology)
Sarah Peverley (medieval literature, religious drama and iconography)
Philosophy
John Adams (philosophy of religion)
Christopher Bartley (Hinduism and Buddhism)
Daniel Hill (philosophy of religion, Protestantism, law and religion)
Jannine Jobling (religion and literature, feminist spirituality, feminist philosophy of religion)
School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures
Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology
Violaine Chauvet (Egyptian tombs)
Roland Enmarch (Ancient Egyptian religion)
Marina Escolano-Poveda (Egyptian religion in the Graeco-Roman period)
Christopher Eyre (Egyptian rituals)
Glenn Godenho (Coptic Christianity)
Alan Greaves (Greek oracles)
Georgia Petridou (Greek and Roman religion and medicine)
Steven Snape (Egyptian sacred landscapes)
Christopher Tuplin (Persian religion)
History
William Ashworth (Anglican theology)
Anna Bocking-Welch (Christian humanitarianism)
Harald Braun (early modern political theology)
Alex Buchanan (architecture of medieval great churches, religious archives)
Roland Clark (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Marios Costambeys (early medieval monasteries)
Bonnie Effros (early medieval Christianity, Christian archaeology)
Anna French (childhood and demons)
Martin Heale (medieval monasteries/Reformation)
Diana Jeater (African religions)
Damien Kempf (medieval manuscripts)
Andrew Redden (Catholicism, Martydrom, Cosmovisions, Political Theology)
Robin Whelan (Christianity in the late ancient world)
Irish Studies
Clare Downham (medieval Irish saints)
Peter Shirlow (Sectarianism)
Modern Languages and Cultures
Lei Peng (Buddhism)
Barbara Spadaro (Jewry in Italy and North Africa)
Sizen Yiacoup (Inter-religious dialogue in medieval Iberia)
Politics
Hannes Baumann (Middle East Sectarianism)
Jonathan Tonge (Religion in Northern Ireland)
School of Law and Social Justice
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
Stefanie Doebler (social attitudes and religion)
Terence Heng (sacred space, ethnic identities and Chinese religion)