Professor Bryan Turner

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Qualifications

DLitt, University of Cambridge, 2009
MA, University of Cambridge, 2002
DLitt, Flinders University, 1986
PhD, University of Leeds, 1970
BA, University of Leeds, 1966

Biography

Professor Bryan Turner is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies and the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College, USA. He has taught at the University of Aberdeen, Flinders University, University of Utrecht, Deakin University, Cambridge University and the National University of Singapore. He is the founding editor of the journals Body&Society, Citizenship Studies and Journal of Classical Sociology, and an editorial member of numerous journals including: British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Contemporary Islam and Journal of Human Rights.

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Areas of Expertise

The sociology of religion, citizenship and human rights, and social and political theory.

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Current Projects

In the past ten years, Bryan’s research has fallen into three broad areas: comparative and historical study of citizenship, specifically in the Asian context; the globalisation of modern societies; and social and political theory within the context of citizenship and human rights. He is currently working on a study in the sociology of religion (Cambridge University Press), and has recently completed editing a Handbook of Globalization Studies (Taylor and Francis). He is soon to initiate a large comparative research programme on global cities, youth cultures and religion.

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Awards and Recognition

• Member, American Sociological Research Association, 2009
• Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 2002-2005
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki, 1995
• Alexander von Humboldt Professorial Fellow, University of Bielfeld, Germany, 1987-1988
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences , appointed 1987
• Morris Ginsberg Fellow, London School of Economics, University of London, 1981

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Selected Publications

Books

2009 Nasir, Kamaludeen Mohamed, Alexius A. Pereira and Bryan S. Turner Muslims in Singapore: Piety, politics and policies London: Routledge

2008 Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (third revised edition) London : Sage

2008 Rights and Virtues: Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice Oxford : Bardwell Press

2006 Vulnerability and Human Rights PA:Penn State University Press

2004 The New Medical Sociology New York : Norton

1999 Classical Sociology London: Sage

1996 For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate (second revised edition) London:Sage

1995 Medical Power and Social Knowledge (second revised edition) London: Sage

1994 Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism London: Routledge

1992 Regulating Bodies: essays in medical sociology London, Routledge

1991 Max Weber: from history to modernity London: Routledge

1991 Religion and Social Theory, (second edition with a new introduction) London: Sage

Edited Volumes

2009 The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory Oxford: Blackwell- Wiley

2007 Religious Diversity and Civil Society. A Comparative Analysis Oxford: Bardwell Press

2006 The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2003 Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology (4 volumes) London and New York: Routledge

2000 Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (second revised edition) Oxford: Blackwell

2000 Orientalism: Early Sources (12 volumes) London and New York: Routledge

Chapters in Books

2009 ‘Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the Kantian Theory of Secularization’ in Peter B. Clarke (ed) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.79-97

2009 ‘Preface to the new edition’ of H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds) From Max Weber:Essays in Sociology London: Routledge, pp. xii –xxxiv

2009 ‘Violence, Human Rights and Piety: cosmopolitanism versus virtuous exclusion’ in Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman (eds) The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 242- 263.

2009 ‘Goods not Gods: New Spiritualities, Consumerism and Religious Markets’ in Ian Rees Jones, Paul Higgs and David J. Ekerdt (eds) Consumption and Generational Changes. The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles, New Brunswick: Transaction, pp.37-62

2009 ‘Marxism and Exile: Reflections on Intellectual Migration’ in Katie Terezakis (ed) Engaging Agnes Heller. A Critical Companion , Lanham :Lexington Books, pp. 23-36

2009 ’A sociology of citizenship and human rights.Does social theory still exist?’ in R.Morgan and B.S. Turner (eds) Interpreting Human Rights London:
Routledge, pp. 177-199

Articles

2009 ‘Religious Speech. The Ineffable Nature of Religious Communication in the Information Age’ Theory Culture & Society 25 (7-8): 219-235

2009 ‘Reshaping the Sociology of Religion: globalization, spirituality and the erosion of the social’ Sociological Review 57(1):186-200

2009 ‘America – an exceptional modernity?’ Journal of Classical Sociology 9(1):168-79

2009 ‘T.H.Marshall, social rights and English national identity’ Citizenship Studies 13(1): 65- 73

2009 ‘Longevity ancient and modern’ Society 46(3):255-261.

2008 ‘Substantive democracy as civil sphere: further considerations on Blau and Moncada’ Sociological Analysis 1(i): 44-5

2008 ‘Citizenship, reproduction and the state: international marriage and human rights’ Citizenship Studies 12(1)

2008 ‘Introduction: the price of piety’ Contemporary Islam 2:1-6

2008 (with Tong, Joy Kooi-Chin) ‘Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaya’ Contemporary Islam 2: 41-59

2008 ‘Civility, civil sphere and citizenship: solidarity versus the enclave society’ Citizenship Studies 12 (2): 177-184

2008 (with Guy Ben-Porat) ‘Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship’ Citizenship Studies 12(3): 195-201

2008 ‘Does Anthropology still Exist?’ Society 45(3):260-66.

2008 ‘Policy Options for the New President in Asia’ Society 45(5):429-432

2008 ‘Somaesthetics and the critique of Cartesian dualism’ (Review Article) Body & Society 14(3):129-33

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