Bryan Ronald Wilson 1926-2004.Eileen Barker -2009 - In Barker Eileen,Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 161, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VIII. pp. 381.detailsBryan Ronald Wilson, a Fellow of the British Academy, was a world-renowned sociologist of religion. He was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Oxford in 1994, the same year that he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Wilson was also awarded an Arnold Gerstenberg studentship, which allowed him to take up a place at the London School of Economics, where Maurice Ginsberg introduced him to the literature of the sociology of religion and where he developed a life-long (...) interest in sectarian movements. He returned to Yorkshire to take up an Assistant Lectureship in Sociology in the Department of Social Studies at the University of Leeds in October 1955, being promoted to Lecturer in 1957. There Wilson taught courses on urban sociology, sociological theory, and the social institutions of modern Britain, as well as on the sociology of religion. He was a Fellow of All Souls College for thirty years. The themes of secularisation, rationalism, and sectarianism were of particular interest to Wilson throughout his academic life. (shrink)
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Does it matter how we got here? Dangers perceived in literalism and evolutionism.Eileen Barker -1987 -Zygon 22 (2):213-225.detailsCreationism and evolutionism are taken to typify a fundamental opposition among the diverse beliefs about creation to be found in the United Kingdom and the United States. A comparison between the two types and the two countries suggests that people may be more concerned about the credibility and consequences of belief in an alternative account of our origins than about the actual method by which we were created. Examples of concern include interpretations of the Bible, ethical implications, and the epistemological (...) standings of revelation and/or science that are thought to follow from acceptance of a particular belief concerning how we got here. (shrink)
LSE On Freedom.Eileen Barker (ed.) -1995 - LSE Books.detailsThe London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has never confined itself to economics and political science but has embraced the full range of the social sciences and its related disciplines. Contributors to this book were invited to write on what they considered of importance concerning the subject of freedom. The volume is an exemplary reflection of the variety, the individuality, the different interests, and the range of assumptions found in the scholars of the LSE. The authors come from (...) varied backgrounds - linguistics, mathematics, computer science, sociology, geography, economics, industrial relations, anthropology, political science. They provide a stimulating array of viewpoints on the universally discussed issue of freedom. (shrink)
On freedom: a centenary anthology.Eileen Barker (ed.) -1995 - New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.detailsD. J. Bartholomew Social law and human choice Samuel Johnson spoke for many in saying, 'Sir, we know our will is free, and there's an end on't. ...
The Unification Church.Eileen Barker -2018 -Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 9 (1):91-105.detailsThe Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, founded in Seoul in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has been more popularly known as the Unification Church or ‘the Moonies.’ Following revelations that he reports having received as a young man, Moon devoted his life to preaching and eventually publically proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, or Lord of the Second Advent, come to fulfil the mission of restoring God’s Kingdom of Heaven on earth. His early struggles (...) in Korea clearly had a considerable influence on the trajectory of his life and the development of the UC into a world-wide movement that reached into a wide variety of areas, such as anti-communist politics, the media, the arts, the sciences and vast businesses. Following Moon’s death, the movement has split into three separate factions, the largest of which is run by his widow, and the other two by, respectively, his oldest living and youngest sons. (shrink)
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