Grace Davie, a sociologist of religion with a particular interest in currents of religion outside the mainstream churches and the significance of the religious factor in modern European societies, is a professor of sociology at the University of Exeter. Her early work involved studies of faith in the inner cities of contemporary Britain. She moved on to a more general consideration of religious life in the United Kingdom, and then to a study of patterns of religious activity in Western Europe and their relationship to what is happening in the rest of the modern world. A graduate of Exeter, where she took first class honors, Dr. Davie earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics in 1975. She held honorary research fellowships at the University of Liverpool and at Exeter and was a tutor at Exeter before joining the faculty as a lecturer in sociology in 1993. Appointed to a senior lectureship in 1997, she became a reader in sociology three years later, and for four years, she directed Exeter’s Centre for European Studies. Dr. Davie was named to her present position in 2003. She has been a visiting scholar on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Uppsala as well as the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor at Uppsala, a visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, a visiting scholar at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, and a “professor invité” at both the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research has been supported by the Christendom Trust, the Inter-faith Network, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Tercentenary Fund of the Bank of Sweden, and the John Templeton Foundation. A former president of the (American) Association for the Sociology of Religion, she also has served as president of the Research Committee of the International Sociological Association and as general secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. She is a trustee of the Scott Holland Trust, the Reid Trust, and the St. Luke’s College Foundation. Dr. Davie has delivered numerous invited lectures in the United Kingdom, in many parts of Europe, in Turkey, in the United States, in South Africa, and in China. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of Religion, State and Society, Implicit Religion, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, the new Journal of Religion in Europe, and the revised edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia on Politics and Religion as well as the editorial advisory board of Sage Publications’ Encyclopedia of Global Religions. In addition to some seventy-five papers published in academic journals or as chapters in volumes of collected works, she is the co-editor of four books and the author of five others, including (with Geoffrey Ahern) Inner City God (1987), Religion in Britain since 1945 (1994), Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates (2000), Europe: The Exceptional Case, Parameters of Faith in the Modern World (2002), and, most recently, The Sociology of Religion, a volume published earlier this year by Sage Publications, which critically examines both the content and method of the discipline with an emphasis on the importance of contextual factors in its development in different parts of the world. She is currently writing (with Peter Berger and Effie Fokas) a book on the nature of religion in Europe in comparison with the United States, Euro-secularity: Theme and Variations, which will be published by Ashgate.