A Good Death - 2023 Symposium and AGM
Dying in the 21st CenturyProf Douglas Davies
Douglas Davies works on the overlap between the anthropology-sociology and the theology of funerals and death, including the variety of worldviews that frame human groups. His many books include Death Ritual and Belief (third edition 2017) already translated into Japanese, Russian, Greek, and Italian. He created The Encyclopedia of Cremation, and has also written on the Theology of Death, the re-use of graves, woodland burial, and currently works on the alkaline hydrolysis of human bodies and is part of a European project on Digital Death. He is an Anglican, Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of The Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Did God Create Death?Dr Denis Alexander
Dr Denis Alexander is the Founding Director [Emeritus] of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, where he is Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund’s College. He is a past chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge.
Dr Alexander was previously at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK) and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas. From 1992-2013 he was Editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief, and Dr Alexander also served as a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. Having given the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews University in 2012, these lectures were published by CUP in August 2017 under the title ‘Genes, Determinism and God’. His book Creation or Evolution - Do We Have to Choose [Oxford: Monarch, 2nd end 2014] reflects on death from biological and Biblical perspectives. Dr Alexander’s latest books are ‘Is There Purpose in Biology?’ [Oxford: Lion, 2018] and ‘Are We Slaves to Our Genes?’ [CUP, 2020].
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