CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
James Arthur BECKFORD
DATE OF BIRTH:
1st December 1942
NATIONALITY:
British
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
CHILDREN:
Twin daughters (b. 1973), one son (b.1975)
PRIVATE ADDRESS:
4, Dunvegan Close
Kenilworth
Warwicks, CV8 2PH, U.K.
Tel.: (01926) 851252
E-mail: [email protected]
QUALIFICATIONS:
B.A. (1st Class Hons) French Studies, 1965, University
of Reading
Ph.D. Sociology, 1972, University of Reading
D. Litt. Sociology, 1985, University of Reading.
HONOURS:
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
F.D. Maurice lecturer, King’s College, London, 2014.
Docteur ès Sciences des Religions, honoris causa,
Université de Lausanne, 2014.
Lifetime Achievement Award, British Sociological
Association’s Study Group for the Sociology of
Religion, 2015.
ACADEMIC POSTS:
1966-73 Lecturer in Sociology, University of Reading
1973-78 Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University
1978-88 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Durham
University
1988-89 Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of
Chicago
1989- Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
2008- Emeritus
VISITING POSITIONS:
1974
Visiting Associate Professor Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada
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1978
1982-83
2001
2004
Visiting Scholar, Tsukuba University, Japan, (March-April)
Fulbright Senior Visiting Fellow, University of California,
Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Directeur d’études invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris (January – February)
Directeur d’études invité, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
(April – May)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1975-78
Founder and Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Study
Group for the Sociology of Religion
1978-83
Chairman of above.
1978-82
Secretary of the International Sociological Association's Research
Committee for the Sociology of Religion
President of above
1982-86
1982-86
Delegate to the Research Council of the International Sociological
Association
1982-86
Member of the Executive Committee of the Conférence Internationale
de la Sociologie des Religions
1984-87
Member of the Membership Committee of the Association for the
Sociology of Religion
1985-89
Member of the Council of the Association for the Sociology of
Religion
1984-86
Editor of the Programme for the 1986 World Congress of Sociology,
New Delhi, India
1987-90
Member of the International Committee for Social Science Information
and Documentation, Unesco
1988-89
President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
1990
Chair of the English-language jury of the ISA Worldwide Competition
for Young Sociologists
1991-
Governor of INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious
Movements)
1993-94
Acting-Chairman of INFORM
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1994-98
Vice-President of the International Sociological Association
1995-99
Vice-President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
1999-03
President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
2003-07
Past-president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
and Chairperson of its Editorial Committee
1999-06
Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Observatoire des Religions in
Switzerland
2003-04
Member of the Irish Research Council’s Assessment Board
2003-06
Member of the Council of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
2003 -
Member of the Conseil scientifique of the Institut Européen en Sciences
des Religions, La Sorbonne, Paris
2004-
Member of the Race and Diversity Training Advisory Group of the Prison
Service of England & Wales
2007-
Member of the Conseil scientifique of the national research programme
(PNR 58) on ‘Enjeux sociologiques de la pluralisation religieuse dans les
prisons suisses’, funded by the Swiss National Research Council.
2007-10
Member of the Consortium Advisory Group of the Religion and
Development research programme, University of Birmingham.
2007-09
Member of the Commissioning Panel for the AHRC/ESRC programme on
Religion and Society
2008-09
Member of the Assessment Panel for Sociology, Standard Research Grants
Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2010-16
Member of the Executive Committee of the Religion and Diversity
project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, at the University of Ottawa
2010-11
President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
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EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
1980-87
Editor of Current Sociology, the journal of the International
Sociological Association
1980-87
Member of the Editorial Board of the Sage Studies in International
Sociology
1983-86
Associate Editor of Sociological Analysis
1983-
Member of the Comité de Rédaction of Social Compass
1984-90
Editorial Associate of History of Sociology
1984-90
Associate Editor of International Sociology
1989-99
Editorial Board of Religion
1991-94
Associate Editor of Review of Religious Research
1993-
Editorial Board of Identity and Culture
1994-98
Chair of the Publications Committee, International Sociological
Association
1994-
Editorial Board of The Journal of Contemporary Religion
1996-99
Editorial Board of The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
1996-
Editorial Board of Arxius
1998-08
Editorial Board of The British Journal of Sociology
1998-
Council of Reference for Implicit Religion
1998-04
Associate Editor of International Sociology
1999-
Editorial Board of New Critical Thinking in Religious Studies
1999-
Editorial Board of Religion – Staat – Gesellschaft
2002-
Senior Editorial Board of The Religious Movements Homepage
2003-07
Chairperson of the Editorial Committee of the International Society for the
Sociology of Religion
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2004 -
Member of the Steering Committee of the Dictionnaire des faits religieux.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
2013-
Member of the International Advisory Board of Ethnicities.
EXTERNAL EXAMINING:
1981-85
1985-87
1986
1989-93
1996-01
1996-98
2004-07
B.Sc. (Social Studies) and B.A. (Humanities) Teesside Polytechnic
B.A. (Religious Studies) Lancaster University
B.A. (Independent Studies) Lancaster University
B.A. (Sociology) University of Exeter
B.A. (Sociology) London School of Economics
B.A. (Sociology) National University of Singapore
B.A. (Sociology) University of Durham
Candidates for higher degrees by thesis at the Universities of:
Durham, East Anglia, Leeds, London, Nottingham, Nijmegen, London School of
Economics, California (Berkeley), Loyola Chicago, Warwick, Kent, Oxford, Keele,
Essex, Lancaster, Surrey, Sheffield, Paris, Ǻrhus, Goldsmiths College London,
Copenhagen, Florence, Padua, Leipzig, Leeds, Cardiff, Uppsala
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
British Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Association for the Sociology of Religion
International Society for the Sociology of Religion
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
1976-79
1978
1979-80
1980
Grant of £5,706 from the Social Science Research Council for a
sociological investigation of withdrawal from an authoritarian religious
sect.
Award of ¥550,000 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science for research on new religious movements in Japan.
Grant of £2,650 from the Nuffield Foundation for a sociological study
of anti-cult sentiment in France, Germany and the USA.
Award of DM5,000 from the European Centre for Social Welfare
Training and Research, Vienna for research on new religious
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1982-83
1982-83
1982-83
1982-84
1984-86
1985
1986-87
1988
1989
1990
1991
1993
1994
1994
1996
2000
2001
2005
2005
movements and young people in Britain (Jointly with E.V. Barker of
the L.S.E.)
Grant of £2,500 from the Nuffield Foundation for a study of new
religious movements and moral change in the USA.
Award of £1,400 from the United States-United Kingdom Educational
Commission for research on new religious movements in the USA.
Award of $15,000 from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
California for research on cults and controversy in the USA.
Grant of $12,000 from UNESCO's Division of the International
Development of the Social Sciences for the production of an edited
volume on New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change.
Grant of $16,000 from UNESCO's Division of Human Rights and Peace
for the production of an edited volume on Human Rights in Religious and
Cultural Traditions.
Grant of $20,000 from UNESCO's Division of Human Rights and Peace
to run a colloquium in connection with the above edited volume.
Grant of £2,950 from the Nuffield Foundation for a study of Accounts
of New Religious Movements in the British Print Media.
Research stipend and stimulation grant of $6,700 from Loyola
University of Chicago.
Grant of £4,520 from Princeton University for a study of the
Independent Sector in Great Britain.
Grant of $6,000 from the Agnelli Foundation for a study of religion
and modernity in the UK.
Grant of £2,960 from the Nuffield Foundation for a study of the ethical
attitudes of health care managers.
Grant of £3,839 from the University of Warwick, Research and
Innovations Fund for a study of Moral Change and the Family.
Grants of £40,093 from the Leverhulme Trust and £10,000 from the
Church of England for a study of civic religion and publicly funded
chaplaincies in England.
Grant of £27,890 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a
study of religion and politics in a multi-faith city.
Grant of £38,692 from the Leverhulme Trust for a study of theological
education in a multi-faith society (with S Gilliat-Ray and R Jackson)
(with Danièle Joly) Grant of £161,263 from the Economic and Social
Research Council for a comparative study of the treatment of Muslims in
the prisons of France and Britain
Grant of £52,546 from the Leverhulme Trust for a study of “The Nation of
Islam, globalisation and ethno-religious identity in the UK”
(With R. Gale, D. Owen, C. Peach & P. Weller) Grant of £28,930 from the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for a review of the knowledge base
on faith communities.
Grant of £28,576 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a
postdoctoral fellowship for Véronique Altglas.
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2010
2010
2012
Co-investigator. Grant of CAN $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada for a 7-year Major Collaborative
Research Initiative on Religion and Diversity
(http://www.religionanddiversity.ca/).
(With B. Berger) Grant of CAN $10,000 from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada for a 2-year project on Hindu,
Muslim and Sikh prison chaplains in Canada and England & Wales.
International Collaborator. Insight Grant of CAN $244,567 from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a 5-year
project on “Diversité culturelle et religieuse dans quatre contextes
nationaux : étude comparée de la dynamique identitaire et de la régulation
de la religion”, hosted by the University of Montreal.
PUBLICATIONS:
(i) Sole- and co-authored Books
The Trumpet of Prophecy. A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1975. xii + 244 pp.
Religious Organization. A Trend Report and Bibliography. The Hague: Mouton, 1975,
170 pp.
Cult Controversies: Societal Responses to New Religious Movements. London and New
York: Tavistock Publications, 1985, viii + 327 pp.
Religion and Advanced Industrial Society. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, xii + 189 pp.
[Italian translation: Religione e Società Industriale Avanzata. Rome: Borla, 1991]
(with Daiber, K.F., Garelli, F., Giner, S., Hervieu-Léger, D., Sarasa, S.,
and Tomka, M.) Fede, cultura religiosa e modernità in Francia, Italia,
Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Germania e Ungheria. Torino: Edizioni della
Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1992.
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Religion in Prison: Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (with S. Gilliat), 1998.
Consultant to: Claire Mason New Religious Movements. The Impact on
Our Lives. London: Hodder Headline, 2003
Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003
(Polish translation: Teoria społeczna a religia. Krakow: Nomos, 2006.
Translated by Magdalena Kunz and Tomasz Kunz)
Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France.
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005 (with D. Joly and F. Khosrokhavar).
French translation: Les Musulmans en Prison en Grande-Bretagne et en
France. Louvain-la-Neuve : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2007
(with D. Joly and F. Khosrokhavar).
(ii) Edited books and journal issues
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‘Jehovah's Witnesses World-Wide’, Social Compass 24 (1) 1977 (guest editor)
‘Social Dissension of Young People and New Religious Movements’, Social Compass 30
(1) 1983 (guest editor)
New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Paris: UNESCO and London:
Sage, 1986, xv + 237 pp. 2nd edition 1991.
[Italian translation Nuove Forme del Sacro. Movimenti Religiosi e Mutamenti Sociale.
Bologna: il Mulino, 1990]
The Changing Face of Religion (ed. with T. Luckmann). London: Sage, 1989, 178 pp.
‘The Sociology of Religion: International Perspectives’, Sociological Analysis S, 1990
(guest editor)
Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism (ed. with E. Barker & K. Dobbelaere).
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. London: Routledge, 2003 (ed.
with J.T. Richardson)
Social Compass 51 (2) 2004 (guest editor)
Social Compass 52 (2) 2005 (guest editor)
Social Compass 53 (2) 2006 (guest editor)
Social Compass 54 (2) 2007 (guest editor)
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates (ed. with John
Walliss), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
Social Compass 53 (2) 2006 (guest editor)
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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (co-edited with N.J.
Demerath III), London: Sage, November 2007
Migration and Religion, 2 vols, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publications,
2015.
(iii) Reports
Human Rights in the Cultural and Religious Traditions. Paris: UNESCO, 1986
(With S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and Other Faiths in a Multi-Faith Society’,
Report to the Church of England and the Leverhulme Trust, July 1996, ix + 520pp.
‘Report on Controversial Religious Groups in the U.K.’, Report to the Institute for
Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University, Japan, December 1996, 24pp.
‘New religious movements in the UK’, report submitted to the Deutscher Bundestag,
Enquete-Kommission “Sogenannte Sekten and Psychogruppen”. May, 1997
‘Review of the evidence base on faith communities’. London: Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister, 100 pp. (with R.Gale, D. Owen, C. Peach and P. Weller), 2006, online
document at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/review
(iv) Articles and chapters
1.
'The embryonic stage of a religious sect's development', A Sociological Yearbook
of Religion in Britain, 5, 1972: 11-32.
2.
'A Korean evangelistic movement in the West', pp.319-335 in The Contemporary
Metamorphoses of Religion? Acts of the 12th International Conference of the
Sociology of Religion. Lille: Editions CISR, 1973.
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3.
'Two contrasting types of sectarian organization', pp.70-85 in Roy Wallis (ed.)
Sectarianism. London: Peter Owen, 1975.
4.
'Korean Christ', New Humanist 91 (5) 1975: 125-126.
5.
'Organization, ideology and recruitment: the structure of the Watchtower
movement', The Sociological Review 23 (4) 1975: 893-909.
6.
'New wine in new bottles: a departure from the church-sect conceptual tradition',
Social Compass 23 (1) 1976: 71-85
7.
[Reprinted as 'Atarashii shu wa atarashii yoki ni', Shukyo Kenkyu 52 (2) 1978:
103-126. Translated by H. Yamanaka]
8.
'Faith and works', Sociology 10 (2) 1976: 335-348 (review article).
9.
'Structural dependence in religious organizations: from "skid-row" to Watch
Tower', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 15 (2) 1976: 169-175.
10.
'Moonies on the wane in Britain', Psychology Today [UK edition] 9 (2) 1976: 2223.
11.
'The explanation of religious movements', International Social Science Journal 29
(2) 1977: 235-249.
12.
'Testimoni di Geova. I problemi di un movimento in espansione', Internazionale
IDOC, 8, 1977: 45-52 [translated].
13.
'Sociological stereotypes of the religious sect', The Sociological Review 26 (1)
1978: 109-123.
14.
'Accounting for conversion', The British Journal of Sociology 29 (2) 1978: 249262.
15.
'Through the looking-glass and out the other side: withdrawal from the Reverend
Moon's Unification Church', Les Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 45
(1) 1978: 95-116.
16.
'Cults and cures', The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 5 (4) 1978: 225-257.
17.
'New religious movements in Japan', Bulletin of the British Association for the
History of Religions, 24, 1978: 6-7.
18.
'Gendai irigisu ni okeru seinen to shukyo' (Youth and religion in Britain), Toyo
Gakujutsu Kenkyo 18 (3) 1979: 45-55 [translated by T. Nakano]
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19.
'Politics and the anti-cult movement', The Annual Review of the Social Sciences
of Religion, 3, 1979: 169-90 [excerpted in The New Religious Movements
Newsletter 1 (3-4) 1979: 3-16; and The Interfaith Bulletin, January 1981: 4-7]
20.
'Cults, controversy and control: a comparative analysis of the problems posed by
new religious movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and France',
Sociological Analysis 42 (3) 1981: 249-264.
21.
'A typology of family responses to a new religious movement', Marriage and
Family Review 4 (3-4) 1981: 41-55 [reprinted in F. Kaslow & M. Sussman
(eds.) Cults and the Family. New York: The Haworth Press, 1982]
22.
'Functionalism and ethics in sociology: the relationship between "ought" and
"function"', The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 5, 1981: 106135.
23.
'Beyond the pale: cults, culture and conflict', pp.284-301 in Eileen Barker (ed.)
New Religious Movements: a Perspective for Understanding Society. New York
and Toronto: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1982.
24.
'Anti-cult sentiment in comparative perspective: preliminary observations',
Conscience et Liberte, 23, 1982: 62-68.
25.
'The ideologies of privacy', Current Sociology 30 (2) 1982: 43-82.
26.
'The public response to new religious movements in the U.K.', Social Compass 30
(1) 1983: 49-62.
[revised for Youth and Social Policy, 9, Summer 1984: 21-35]
27.
28.
(With James T. Richardson) 'A bibliography of social scientific studies of new
religious movements', Social Compass 30 (1) 1983: 111-135.
29.
'The restoration of "power" to the sociology of religion', Sociological Analysis 44
(1) 1983: 11-32. [Reprinted pp. 13-37 in T. Robbins & R. Robertson (eds.)
Church/State Problems. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987]
30.
'The State and control of new religious movements', pp. 115-130 in Acts of the
17th International Conference of the Sociology of Religion. Paris: Editions
CISR, 1983.
31.
(With Annette P. Hampshire) 'Religious sects and the concept of deviance: the
Mormons and the Moonies', The British Journal of Sociology 34 (2) 1983: 208229.
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32.
'Talking of apostasy: telling tales and "telling" tales', pp.77-97 in P. Abell and
N.G. Gilbert (eds.) Accounts and Action. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1983.
33.
'Some questions about the relationship between scholars and the new religious
movements', Sociological Analysis 44 (3) 1983: 184-195.
34.
'"Brainwashing" and "deprogramming" in Britain: the social sources of anti-cult
sentiment', pp.122-138 in D.G. Bromley and J.T. Richardson (eds.) The
Brainwashing and Deprogramming Controversy. New York and Toronto: the
Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.
35.
'The cult problem in five countries: the social construction of religious
controversy' pp.195-214 in Eileen Barker (ed.) Of Gods and Men: New
Religious Movements in the West. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984.
36.
'Religious organisation: a survey of some recent publications', Les Archives de
Sciences Sociales des Religions 57 (1) 1984: 83-102.
37.
'Holistic imagery and ethics in new religious and healing movements', Social
Compass 31 (2-3) 1984: 259-272.
38.
'Religious organization' pp. 125-138 in Phillip E. Hammond (ed.) The Sacred in a
Secular Age. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1985.
39.
(With Martine Levasseur) 'New religious movements in Western Europe' pp. 2954 in J.A. Beckford (ed.) New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change.
Paris: UNESCO and London: Sage, 1986.
40.
'The insulation and isolation of the sociology of religion', Sociological Analysis
46 (4) 1985: 347-354.
41.
'New religious movements and healing: a sociological overview' pp. 72-93 in R.
Kenneth Jones (ed.) Sickness and Sectarianism: an Analysis of the Relationship
between Medicine and Religion. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1985.
42.
'Cults and new religious movements: an overview', The Encyclopedia of
Religion. Vol. 10 pp. 390-94. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
43.
'The positive science of ethics in Germany'. (A translation [with G. Schroeter] of
E. Durkheim 'La science positive de la morale en Allemagne', La Revue
Philosophique, 1887.) The History of Sociology 7 (2) 1987: 191-251.
44.
'Is the sacred a sociological category ?', Journal of Oriental Studies 26 (1) 1987:
33-39.
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45.
'Social movements as instruments of secularization and/or sacralization of society:
commentary', Acts of the 19th International Conference for the Sociology of
Religion, Lausanne: Editions CISR, 1987: 127-33.
46.
‘Nuovi movimenti religiosi e diritti umani’ Pace, diritti dell’uomo, diritti dei
popoli 1 (2) 1987: 45-50. [translated by E. Pace]
47.
'The literature on Western new religious movements outside the USA and the
UK', pp.17-23 in T. Robbins Cults, Converts and Charisma: the Sociology of
New Religious Movements. London: Sage publications, 1988.
48.
(With Melanie A. Cole) `British and American responses to new religious
movements', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 70
(3) 1988: 209-24.
49.
`The sociology of religion 1945-1989', Social Compass 37 (1) 1990: 45-64.
[Reprinted in Turkish translation by N. Tinaz as ‘1945-1989 yillari arasinda dîn
sosyolojîsî’, D.E.Ü.Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8, 1994: 473-502]
50.
`Shukyo shakai-gaku no han-seiki' [trans. K. Ishii] Journal of Oriental Studies, 29
(2) 1990: 65-91.
51.
`The sociology of religion and social problems', Sociological Analysis 51 (1)
1990: 1-14.
52.
`Ferment without synthesis', The American Sociologist 21 (3) 1990: 283-85.
53.
`Religion and power', pp. 43-60 in T. Robbins & D. Anthony (eds) In Gods We
Trust. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Books, 2nd ed., 1990.
54.
`Socialization in small religious movements', pp.135-59 in L. Laeyendecker et al.,
(eds.) Experiences and Explanations. Historical and Sociological Essays on
Religion in Everyday Life. Ljouwert: Fryske Akademy, 1990.
55.
`Great Britain: voluntarism and sectional interests', pp. 30-63 in R. Wuthnow
(ed.) Between States and Markets. The Voluntary Sector in Comparative
Perspective. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
56.
`Quasi-marxisms and the sociology of religion' in D.G. Bromley (ed) Religion
and the Social Order. Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, vol.1, 1991: 17-35.
57.
`Politics and religion in England and Wales' Daedalus, 120 (3) 1991: 179-201.
58.
'Religion, modernity and post-modernity' pp. 11-23 in B.R. Wilson (ed) Religion:
Contemporary Issues. The All Souls' Seminars in the Sociology of Religion.
London: Bellew, 1992.
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59.
'Religione e società nel Regno Unito', pp. 217-89 in Aa.Vv. La religione degli
europei, Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1992.
60.
'Tendenze e prospettive', pp. 485-502 in Ibid.
61.
‘Domination and its discontents: Michel Foucault’, pp. 365-66 in Bocock, R. &
Thompson, K. (eds) Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity,
1992 [reprinted 3 times]
62.
Entries on 'Sect', 'Revivalism' and 'Religion' in W. Outhwaite and T. Bottomore
(eds) The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1993 [revised in 2nd edition, edited by William Outhwaite, 2003]
63.
'States, governments and the management of controversial new religious
movements' pp.125-43 in E. Barker, J. Beckford & K. Dobbelaere (eds)
Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1993.
64.
'Ecologie et religion dans les sociétés industrielles avancées', pp.239-49 in D.
Hervieu-Léger (ed) Religion et Ecologie. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1993.
65.
(With T. Robbins) 'Religious movements and church-state issues' pp 199-218 in
D. Bromley & J. Hadden (eds) The Handbook on Cults and Sects in America
(Part A). Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, 1993.
66.
'Secularization and its discontents', Scriptura S12, 1993: 1-18. (reprinted in N.
Meer [ed.] Islam and Modernity. London: Routledge, 2016)
67.
'Are new religious movements new social movements?', Scriptura S12, 1993: 1934.
68.
'Religious change in the UK', Scriptura S12, 1993: 81-107.
69.
(With A. Suzara) 'A new religious and healing movement in the Philippines',
Religion 24 (2) 1994: 117-42.
70.
'The media and new religious movements', pp. 143-48 in James R. Lewis (ed.)
From the Ashes. Making Sense of Waco. Lanham: MD.: Rowman & Littlefield,
1994.
71.
‘On new religious movements’, pp. 377-84 in Religions Sans Frontières? Present
and Future Trends of Migration, Culture, and Communication. Rome:
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento per l’Informazione e
l’Editoria, 1994.
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72.
'Religion, self-help and privatization', pp. 318-41 in W. Sprondel (Herausgeber)
Die Objektivität der Ordnungen und ihre kommunikative Konstruktion. Suhrkamp
Verlag, 1994.
73.
‘Final reflections’ pp. 160-68 in P. Jupp and J. Fulton (eds) Religion in
Contemporary Europe. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994
74.
‘The mass media and new religious movements’, ISKCON Communications
Journal 4, 1994: 17-24.
75.
‘1945-1989 Yillari arasinda din sosyolojisi’, D.E.Ü Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi,
VIII, 1994: 473-502 (Trans. N. Tinaz)
76.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and other faith communities in a multifaith society’, World Faiths Encounter, 10, 1995: 59-64
77.
‘Cults, conflicts and journalists’, pp.99-111 in R. Towler (ed) New Religions and
the New Europe. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995
78.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘The prison chaplaincy. The Church of England and Other Faiths
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