Bryan Turner (sociologist)

Bryan Stanley Turner
Born (1945-01-16) January 16, 1945[1]
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nationality English, Australian
Occupation scholar, professor
Title Presidential Professor[2]
Academic background
Education Ph.D.
Alma mater University of Leeds
Thesis The decline of Methodism : an analysis of religious commitment and organisation[3] (1970[3])
Academic work
Discipline Sociologist
Sub-discipline Sociology of religion
Institutions The Graduate Center, CUNY, University of Western Sydney[2]

Bryan Stanley Turner is a British and Australian sociologist. He was born in January 1945 in Birmingham, England. Turner has held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998–2005) and Research Team Leader for the Religion Cluster at the Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2005–2008).[4]

Turner is currently Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University. He is also faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology[5] at Yale University, Research Associate, GEMASS at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,[6] Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia[7] and Member of the American Sociological Research Association.

Early life

Turner attended Harborne Collegiate School for Boys and George Dixon Grammar School. He went on to the University of Leeds, where he completed a first class honours degree in Sociology in 1966. He received his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds in 1970 with a thesis titled "The Decline of Methodism: an analysis of religious commitment and organisation". He has received several honorary degrees recognising his contributions to Sociology: Doctor of Letters at Flinders University in 1987, Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and Doctor of Letters at the University of Cambridge in 2009.

Career

Professor Turner's research interests include globalisation and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies.[8]

Turner wrote his first book Weber and Islam[9] in 1974 and has since established an international reputation for his work on religion, Max Weber and comparative sociology.[10] He is one of the world’s leading sociologists of religion; he has also devoted significant attention to sociological theory, the study of human rights, and the sociology of the body.[11]

He is the founding editor of the journals: Body & Society (with Mike Featherstone), Citizenship Studies, and Journal of Classical Sociology (with John O'Neill). He is also an editorial member of numerous journals including: British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Contemporary Islam and Journal of Human Rights.[12]

He is the editor of two book series for Anthem Press: Key Issues in Modern Sociology and Tracts for Our Times; and with Gabriele Marranci he edits Muslims in Global Societies for Springer.

Professional recognition

YearsAward or Recognition
1981Morris Ginsberg Fellow, London School of Economics, University of London.
1987Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences
1987–1988Alexander von Humboldt Professorial Fellow, University of Bielfeld, Germany.
1995Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2002–2005Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.
2009Member, American Sociological Research Association.
2009–2010Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College[13]
2011Honorary Fellow of the Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
2015Max Planck Research Award [14]

Selected bibliography

YearMonographs
2004The New Medical Sociology. New York: Norton.
2006Vulnerability and Human Rights. Penn State University Press
2008Rights and Virtues. Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice. Oxford: Bardwell Press
2008Body and Society. Explorations in Social Theory. London: Sage (third revised edition)
2009Can we live forever? A sociological and moral inquiry. London: Anthem Press.
2011Religion and Modern Society. Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
YearEdited
2006The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley.
2009The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge.
2010The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
2010Secularization. (Four-Volume Set). UK: SAGE.
YearJoint Authored
2010Turner B., Khondker H. Globalization East and West. SAGE: London.
2011Susen, S., Turner, B. The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu. Anthem.
2011Turner, B., Arslan, B. Z. Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West. European Journal of Social Theory

14(2): 139–159.

References

  1. ↑ "Turner, Bryan S." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Bryan Turner". Religion and Society Research Center. University of Western Sydney. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Turner, Bryan S. (1970). The decline of Methodism : an analysis of religious commitment and organisation (PDF) (Ph.D.). University of Leeds. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
  5. ↑ Center for Cultural Sociology – Yale University – http://ccs.research.yale.edu/fellows/faculty/#turner
  6. ↑ Centre national de la recherche scientifique – http://www.cnrs.fr/
  7. ↑ Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) – "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-17.
  8. ↑ World Who's Who – http://www.worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2170601
  9. ↑ Weber and Islam Archived 18 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies – http://www.uws.edu.au/cscms/centre_for_the_study_of_contemporary_muslim_societies/key_people
  11. ↑ The Graduate Centre – CUNY – http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/new_faculty/Turner.htm
  12. ↑ CSCMS Profile – http://uws.edu.au/cscms/centre_for_the_study_of_contemporary_muslim_societies/key_people/professor_bryan_turner
  13. ↑ Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-17.
  14. ↑ "Award for two pioneering thinkers in the fields of religion and modernity - Max Planck Society".
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