Bryan Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bryan Stanley Turner (1945-01-16)16 January 1945 (age 80)[3] |
| Nationality | British,Australian |
| Occupation(s) | scholar,professor |
| Title | Presidential Professor[2] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Thesis | The Decline of Methodism[1] (1970[1]) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Sub-discipline | Sociology of religion |
| Institutions | The Graduate Center, CUNY,University of Western Sydney[2] |
Bryan Stanley Turner (born 1945) is a British and Australiansociologist. He was born in January 1945 inBirmingham, England. Turner has held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States. He was a Professor of Sociology at theUniversity 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 theAustralian Catholic University. He is also faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology[5] atYale University, Research Associate, GEMASS at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique,[6] Fellow of theAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia[7] and Member of the AmericanSociological Research Association.
Turner attended Harborne Collegiate School for Boys andGeorge Dixon Grammar School. He went on to theUniversity of Leeds, where he completed a first classhonours 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 atFlinders University in 1987,Master of Arts at theUniversity of Cambridge in 2002 and Doctor of Letters at the University of Cambridge in 2009.
Professor Turner's research interests includesociological theory, sociology ofglobalisation andreligion, concentrating on such issues asreligious conflict and themodern state, religious authority and electronic information, religiousconsumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion,the human body,medical change, and religiouscosmologies.[8]
Turner wrote his first bookWeber and Islam[9] in 1974 and has since established an international reputation for his work on religion,Max Weber andcomparative sociology.[10]
He is the founding editor of the journals:Body & Society (with Mike Featherstone),Citizenship Studies, andJournal 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 andJournal of Human Rights.[11]
He is the editor of two book series for Anthem Press:Key Issues in Modern Sociology andTracts for Our Times; and also ofReligion in Contemporary Asia for Routledge.
| Years | Award or Recognition |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Morris Ginsberg Fellow,London School of Economics,University of London. |
| 1987 | Fellow of theAustralian Academy of Social Sciences[12] |
| 1987–1988 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorial Fellow, University of Bielefeld, Germany. |
| 1995 | Distinguished Visiting Professor,University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| 2002–2005 | Fellow,Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK. |
| 2009 | Member,American Sociological Research Association. |
| 2009–2010 | Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology atWellesley College[13] |
| 2011 | Honorary Fellow of theAlbanian Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2015 | Max Planck Research Award[14] |
| Year | Monographs |
|---|---|
| 1974 | Weber and Islam. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. |
| 1994 | Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism. London: Routledge. |
| 2004 | The New Medical Sociology. New York: Norton. |
| 2006 | Vulnerability and Human Rights. Penn State University Press |
| 2008 | Rights and Virtues. Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice. Oxford: Bardwell Press |
| 2008 | Body and Society. Explorations in Social Theory. London: Sage (third revised edition) |
| 2009 | Can we live forever? A sociological and moral inquiry. London: Anthem Press. |
| 2011 | Religion and Modern Society. Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Year | Edited |
| 1990 | Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity. London: SAGE Publications. |
| 2006 | The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 2009 | The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley. |
| 2009 | The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge. |
| 2010 | The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. |
| 2010 | Secularization. (Four-Volume Set). UK: SAGE. |
| 2013 | The Sociology of Islam: Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner. (with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir). UK: Ashgate. |
| Year | Joint Authored Monographs |
| 2002 | June Edmunds and Bryan Turner.Generations, Culture and Society. UK: Open University Press. |
| 2010 | Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius Pereira and Bryan Turner.Muslims in Singapore: Piety, Politics and Policies. Routledge: London. |
| 2010 | Bryan Turner and Habibul Khondker.Globalization East and West. SAGE: London. |
| 2014 | Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir and Bryan Turner.The Future of Singapore: Population, Society and the Nature of the State. Routledge: London. |
