Dr Mikel (Mik) Burley is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy

Philosophy of religion; religious ethics; comparative and cross-cultural philosophy and religion; South Asian religious and philosophical traditions (esp. Hindu and Buddhist).

BA (Essex) MA (Nottingham) PhD, MA (Leeds) PhD (Bristol)

Research Interests

• Philosophy of religion
• Religious ethics
• Comparative and cross-cultural philosophy and religion
• South Asian religious and philosophical traditions (esp. Hindu and Buddhist)
• Philosophical and interdisciplinary research methods
• Death, illness and emotion
• Conceptions of immortality and eternal life
• Rebirth and reincarnation
• Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian approaches