Grace Davie, a leading UK sociologist of religion and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the Institute for Advanced Studies (INS) of the University of Montenegro in September of this year. Her previous roles include presidencies at the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the International Sociological Association.
Her research primarily explores the sociology of religion, focusing on European religious patterns and theoretical frameworks like ‘European exceptionalism’ and ‘multiple modernities’. She conducts in-depth analyses of how current religious significance can be interpreted using concepts primarily shaped by the European experience.
Davie’s prolific writing includes titles such as Religion in Britain since 1945 (1994), Religion in Modern Europe (2000), Europe: the Exceptional Case (2002), The Sociology of Religion (2013), and Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox (2015).
Her visit is highly anticipated for its promise of deep and thought-provoking discussions on the interplay between religion and modern society.
The lecture featuring Professor Davie is part of the project ‘Beyond the Anticlerical Paradigm: Rethinking Secularism in Contemporary Montenegro,’ supported by a grant from the University of Oxford.
