Linda Woodhead
- January 9, 2024
- Sociologist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Linda Woodhead |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 15, 1964(1964-02-15) |
| Age | 60 |
| Birthplace | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Linda Woodhead Biography
| Name | Linda Woodhead |
| Birthday | Feb 15 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Linda Woodhead is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on February 15, 1964 in England, United Kingdom. Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead, MBE was born 15 February 1964. She is a British academic who specializes in religious studies and the sociology of religion. Her work on religious change in the 1980s and her role in initiating public debates about faith are what make her most famous. Matthew Taylor, the head of Royal Society of Arts, described her as “one of world’s foremost experts on religion”. She has been the Professor of Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University since 2006. She was the director of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme from 2007 to 2012.
Wood is married to Alexander Mercer and lives in Lancaster and Glasgow. She was previously married with Alan Billings (current South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner).
Woodhead’s work on religion, identity, and power is developed in articles on religion and gender, Muslim veiling controversies, governance of religious diversity, religion and politics, religion and law. Her conceptual approach to religion is systematised in A Sociology of Religious Emotion (co-authored with Ole Riis, Oxford University Press 2011) in a schema which integrates religion’s bodily, ritual, emotional and cognitive dimensions.
Woodhead co-founded the Westminster Faith Debates with former Home Secretary Charles Clarke in 2011. The debates were originally created to publicise findings from the Religion and Society programme, but have since become an annual series. They bring researchers into conversation with prominent figures in public life and have included former Prime Minister Tony Blair, ethnologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. The debates have been covered by BBC Radio, LBC, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, the Evening Standard and other UK and international media.
Woodhead was named Director of the PS12m Religion and Society research program in 2007. It was funded by both the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council. This initiative funded 265 academics and researchers from 29 different disciplines working on 75 separate research projects and other initiatives including British Religion in Numbers and RadicalisationResearch.org.
Linda Woodhead Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Sociologist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Linda Woodhead is one of the richest Sociologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Linda Woodhead 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 1985, Woodhead received the MA by conversion in 1989. Woodhead was appointed Tutor in Doctrine and Ethics (1988-1992) at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. She moved to Lancaster University in 1992.
An Introduction to Christianity (Cambridge University Press 2004, Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (ISBN 978019280322121) (Oxford University Press 2005), Religions in the Modern World (2nd ed. 2009) examine the evolution of religions over time, examining how these religions confirm or challenge power relationships in larger society. Woodhead uses this approach to explain why churches have declined in Europe and not elsewhere.
She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Uppsala University in 2009 and also a Doctor of Letters. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to higher education.
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