Professor Bryan Turner

Professor Bryan Turner

DIRECTOR, NCEIS,
Religion and Society Research Centre

PROFESSOR, SOCIAL & POLITCL THOUGHT,
Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology

Personal

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Religion and Society Research Centre
  • Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology

Contact

Email:B.Turner@uws.edu.au
Extension:On Leave
Mobile:
Location:1.1.171
Bankstown
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Publications

Books

  • Turner, B. and Elliott, A. (2012), 'On Society', : Polity 97807456484222.
  • Elliott, A. and Turner, B. (2012), 'On Society', : Polity Press 9780745648415.
  • Turner, B. (2011), 'Religion and Modern Society', : Cambridge University Press 9780521858649.
  • Turner, B. and Khondker, H. (2010), 'Globalization East and West', : SAGE 9781412928526.
  • Kamaludeen Bin Mohamed Nasir, K., Pereira, A. and Turner, B. (2009), 'Muslims in Singapore - Piety and Politics in a Secular Society', : Routledge 9780415476478.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Can We Live Forever? A Sociological and Moral Inquiry', : Anthem Press 139781843317807.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Rights and Virtues :Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Jutice', : Bardwell Press 9781905622085.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory', : Sage 9781412929868.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Vulnerability and Human Rights', : Penn State University Press 9780271029238.

Chapters in Books

  • Onnudottir, H., Possamai, A. and Turner, B. (2012), 'Islam and Indigenous Populations in Australia and New Zealand', Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging, Melbourne University Press 9780522861624.
  • Kyung-Sup, C., Turner, B., Turner, B. and Turner, B. (2012), 'Introduction: East Asia and citizenship', Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental politics, national unity and globablization, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Kyung-Sup, C., Turner, B., Turner, B. and Turner, B. (2012), 'Introduction: East Asia and citizenship', Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental politics, national unity and globablization, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'National and social citizenship: some structural and cultural problems with modern citizenship', Contested Citizenship in East Asia, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Turner, B. and Kyung-Sup, C. (2012), 'Whither East Asian citizenship?', Contested Citizenship in East Asia, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of Religion', The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in contemporary society, New York University Press and Social Science Research Council 9780814738726.
  • Turner, B. and Chang, K. (2012), 'Whither East Asian citizenship?', Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Chang, K. and Turner, B. (2012), 'Introduction : East Asia and citizenship', Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity and Globablization, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'National and social citizenship : some structural and cultural problems with modern citizenship', Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization, Routledge 9780415594462.
  • Onnudottir, H., Possamai, A. and Turner, B. (2012), 'Islam and Indigenous populations in Australia and New Zealand', Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging, Melbourne University Press 9780522861624.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Post-secular society : consumerism and the democratization of religion', The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society, New York University Press 9780814738726.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Introduction. The turn of the body', Routledge Handbook of Body Studies, Routledge 9780415593557.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'The cosmopolitanism of the sacred', Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, Routledge 9780415600811.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Rights, reform and resources : Malthusian reflections of scarcity and old age', Handbook of Human Rights, Routledge 9780415480239.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Four models of citizenship : from authoritarianism to consumer citizenship', Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience, Brill 9789004226562.
  • Turner, B., Ben-Porat, G., Turner, B. and Ben-Porat, G. (2011), 'Introduction: contemporary dilemmans of Israeli citizenship', The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship, Routledge 978415782500.
  • Turner, B., Ben-Porat, G., Turner, B. and Ben-Porat, G. (2011), 'Introduction: contemporary dilemmans of Israeli citizenship', The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship, Routledge 978415782500.
  • Possamai, A., Turner, B. and Barbalet, J. (2011), 'Introduction: States, Consumption and Managing Religions', Religion and the State: a comparative sociology, Anthem Press 9780857287984.
  • Turner, B. (2011), 'Religion in Liberal and Authoritarian States', Religion and the State: a comparative sociology, Anthem Press 9780857287984.
  • Barbalet, J., Possamai, A. and Turner, B. (2011), 'Public Religions and the State: A Comparative Perspective', Religion and the State: a comparative sociology, Anthem Press 9780857287984.
  • Turner, B. and Susen, S. (2011), 'Introduction', The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays, Anthem Press 9780857287687.
  • Turner, B. (2011), 'Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Religion', The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays, Anthem Press 9780857287687.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Rights, Recognition and Relativism', Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization, Hamptom Press 9781572739253.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion', The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405188524.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Religion in a Post-secular Society', The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405188524.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Islam, Public Religions and the Secularization Debate', Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer 9789048199611.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Religion', Secularisation, SAGE 9781848600874.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Talcott Parson's Sociology of Religion and the Expressive Revolution: The Problem of Western Individualism', Secularisation, SAGE 9781848600874.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Cosmopolitanism and the clash of civilizations', Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Routledge 9780415474450.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Islam, Diaspora and Multiculturalism', The SAGE Handbook of Islamic Studies, SAGE 9780761943259.
  • Turner, B. and Isin, E. (2010), 'Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights', The Routledge Companion to Social Theory, Routledge 0415470153.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: The Kantian Theory of Securlarisation', The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Oxford University Press 9780199279791.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Theories of globalization: issues and origins', The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, Routledge 9780415458085.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Goods not Gods: New Spiritualities, Consumerism and Religious Markets', Consumption and Generational Changes. The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles, Transaction Publishers 9781412808576.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Globalization and its possible futures', The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, Routledge 9780415458085.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory?', The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405169004.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'The Sociology of the Body', The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405169004.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Introduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global Body', The Body in Asia, Berghahn Books 9781845455507.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Human vulnerabilities: on individual and social rights', The Leading Rogue State: The U.S. and Human Rights, Paradigm Books 9781594515897.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'The constructed body', Handbook of Constructionist Research, The Guilford Press .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Globalization, Religion and Empire of Asia', Religion, Globalization and Culture, Brill .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Religious Diversity and the liberal consensus', Religious Diversity and Civil Society, Bardwell .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'New spiritualities, the media and global religion: da Vinci Code and The Passion of Christ', Religious Commodifications in Asia. Marketing Gods, Routledge .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Investigating Citizenship: an agenda for citizenship studies', Citizenship between Past and Present, Routledge .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Acts of piety: the political and the religious, or the tale of two cities', Acts of Citizenship, Verso .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Bir Vatandaslik Kuraminin Anahatlari', Vatandasligin Donusumu, Metis 9789753426701.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Revivalism and the enclave society', Muslim Modernities. Expressions of the Civil Imagination, I.B.Taurus 9781845118723.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Sikhism', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference 2nd Edition .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Moynihan, Daniel Patrick', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference 2nd Edition Volume 5 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Moynihan Report', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Refernce 2nd Edition Volume 5 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Glazer, Nathan', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Repatriation', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Vulnerability', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Condorcet, Marquis de', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Gerontology', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Transitionalism', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Mendel's Law', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Ali, Muhammad (Memet)', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Sanskritzation', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Skopol, Theda', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan 9780028659657.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Religious renewal and social diversity: sources of citizenship, conflict and co-operation in multicultural societies', Religious Pluralism in Democratic Societies: challenges and prospects for Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, Thomson Gale .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'British Sociology', 21st Cetury Sociology, A Reference Handbook, Sage 9781412916080.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'The sociology of the body', 21st Century Sociology, A Reference Handbook, Sage 9781412916080.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Body and Society', Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Body and cultural sociology', Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Shariati, Ali(1933-77)', Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Culture, technologies and bodies: the technological utopia of living forever', Embodying Spciology: retrospect, progress and progress, Blackwell 9781405167949.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Orientalism and Otherness', Islam in the European Union. Transnationalism, Youth and the War on Terror, Oxford University Press .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Nachwort', Die elementaren Formen des religiosen Lebens, Verlag der Weltreligionen .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Pragmatism, democracy and imperialism', Pragmatism and European Social Theory, Bardwell Press 9781905622009.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'The futures of globalization', The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'New and Old Xenophobia: the crisis of liberal multiculturalism', Islam and Political Violence, Tauris .
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'The crisis of religious authority: education, information and technology', Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia, Routledge .
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'The 1968 Student Revolts. The Expressive Revolution and Generational Politics', The Disobedient Generation. Social Theorists in the Sixties, Chicago University Press 9780226756257.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Citizenship, Nationalism and Nation-Building', The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, Sage 9781412901017.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Citizenship East and West, Reflections on revolutions and civil society', Europe and Asia Beyond East and West, Routledge 9780415379472.
  • Turner, B. and Dumas, A. (2006), 'Age and aging: the social world of Foucault and Bourdieu', Foucault and Aging, Nova Science Publishers .
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Social Capital, Trust and Offensive Behaviour', Incivilities: regulating offensive behaviour, Hart .
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'The Sociology of the Religion', The Sage Handbook of Sociology, Sage .
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Ideology and Utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia: reflections on the English cultural conduit', Postwar British Critical Thought, Sage 978076194367.
  • Turner, B. and Edmunds, B. (2005), 'The Distaste of Taste: Bourdieu, cultural capital and the Australian post-war elite', Consumer Behaviour, Sage .
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Citizenship and civil rights', Encyclopedia of Disability, Sage 9780761925651.
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Epilogue: Asia in European sociology', The Handbook of European Social Theory, London, Sage .
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Foreword', Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction and Belonging in America, Temple University Press .
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'The Sociology of the Family', The Sage Handbook of Sociology, Sage .

Journal Articles

  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Sociology in the USA and beyond: A half-century decline?', Journal of Sociology, 16.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Sociology in the USA and beyond : a half-century decline?', Journal of Sociology, 16.
  • Turner, B. (2012), 'Managing religions, citizenship and the liberal paradox', Citizenship Studies, 14.
  • Turner, B. and Arslan, B. (2011), 'Shari'a and legal pluralism in the west', European Journal of Social Theory, 21.
  • Susen, S. and Turner, B. (2011), 'Tradition and innovation in classical sociology: Tenth anniversary report of JCS', Journal of Classical Sociology, 9.
  • Turner, B. (2011), 'Max weber and the spirit of resentment: The Nietzsche legacy', Journal of Classical Sociology, 18.
  • Turner, B. (2011), 'Legal pluralism, state sovereignty, and Citizenship', Democracy and Security, 21.
  • Onnudottir, H., Possamai, A. and Turner, B. (2010), 'Islam: A New Religious Vehicle for Aboriginal Self-Empowerment in Australia?', International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 26.
  • Turner, B. (2010), 'Revisiting weber and Islam', British Journal of Sociology, 6.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Religious Speech. The Ineffable Nature of Religious Communication in the Information Age', Theory Culture & Society, 17.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Bernard Crick: citizenship and democracy in the United Kingdom', Citizenship Studies, 8.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'T.H.Marshall, social rights and English national identity', Citizenship Studies, 9.
  • Turner, B. (2009), 'Citizens, Communities and Conflict: surviving globalization', Citizenship Studies, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Substantive democracy as civil sphere: further considerations on Blau and Moncada', Sociological Analysis, 2.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Citizenship, reproduction and the state: international marriage and human rights', Citizenship Studies, .
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Civility, civil sphere and citizenship: solidarity versus the enclave society', Citizenship Studies, 8.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Introduction: the price of piety', Coentemporary Islam, 6.
  • Tong, J. and Turner, B. (2008), 'Woman. piety and practice: a study of woman and religious practice in Malaya', Contemporary Islam, 19.
  • Turner, B. and Ben-Porat, G. (2008), 'Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship', Citizenship Studies, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Does Anthropology Still Exist?', Society, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Policy Options for the New President in Asia', Society, 4.
  • Turner, B. (2008), 'Somaesthetics and the citique or Cartesian dualism', Body and Society, 5.
  • Turner, B. and Vopli, F. (2007), 'Introduction: making Islamic authority matter', Theory Culture & Society, 19.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Religious authority and the new media', Theory Culture & Society, 18.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Investigating Citizenship: an agenda for citizenship studies', Citizenship Studies, 13.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'A New Agenda for Sociological Theory', Journal of Studies in Contemporary Sociological Theory, 23.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'The Enclave Society: towards a sociology of immobility', European Journal of Social Theory, 18.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'The life-extension project:a sociological critique', Health Sociological Review, 13.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Islam, Religious Revival and the Sovereign State', Muslim World, 14.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Managing religions: state responses to religious diversity', Contemporary Islam, 15.
  • Turner, B. (2007), 'Minorities and Modernity: the crisis of liberal secularism', Citizenship Studies, 8.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Bodily Performance: on aura and reproducibility', Body and Society, 17.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Classical sociology and cosmopolitanism: a critical defence of the social', British Journal of Sociology, 19.
  • Turner, B. and Wainwright, S. (2006), 'Corps de ballet: performance, vocation et blessure chez les danseurs classiques', Medecine des Arts, 8.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'The globalization of human rights: violence, new wars and failed states', Korea Observer, 33.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Religion and Politics: nationalism, globalisation and empire', Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 16.
  • Turner, B. and Wainwright, S. (2006), '"Just Crumbling to Bits" An exploration of the body, ageing, injury and career in classical ballet dancers'', Sociology, 19.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Logics', Theory Culture and Society, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Discipline', Theory Culture and Society, 4.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Body', Theory Culture and Society, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Hospital', Theory Culture and Society, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Religion', Theory Culture and Society, 8.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Law and Religion', Theory Culture and Society, 3.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'British sociology and public intellectuals: consumer society and imperial decline', British Journal of Sociology, 20.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Global sociology and the nature of rights', Societies without Borders, 12.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Public intellectuals, globalization and the sociological calling: a reply to critics', British Journal of Sociology, 7.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'The Religious Roots of the Rights Revolution', Colloquium: the new horizons of contemporary sociological theory, 19.
  • Turner, B. (2006), 'Citizenship and the crisis of multiculturalism: review article', Citizenship Studies, 12.
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Cittadinanza, multiculturalismo e pluralismo giuridico: diritti culturali e teoria del riconoscimento critico', Post filosofie, 18.
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Talcott Parson's Sociology of Religion and the Expressive Revolution, The Problem of Western Individualism', Journal of Classical Sociology, 16.
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'The self, religion and the sociological traditionL A review article', The Sociological Review, 6.
  • Turner, B. and Edmunds, J. (2005), 'Global Generations: social change in the twentieth century', British Journal of Sociology, 19.
  • Turner, B. (2005), 'Leibniz, Islam and Cosmopolitan Virtue', Theory Culture & Society, 9.
  • Turner, B., Wainwright, S. and Williams, C. (2005), 'Fractured identities: loss, dying and the balletic body', Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health illness & medicine, 18.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Sex and Post - Secularism: A marriage of convenience?
Years:2012-11-15 - 2013-12-15
ID:P00021218
UWS Researchers:Alphia Possamai-Inesedy and Bryan Turner
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Testing the limits of post-secularism and multiculturalism in Australia, France and the USA: Shari'a in the everyday life of Muslim communities
Years:2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30
ID:P00020137
UWS Researchers:Adam Possamai, Selda Dagistanli and Bryan Turner
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:The Rise of the New Atheism
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:Hybrid Spirituality and Religious Efficacy of Yogyakarta Spiritual Center
Field of Research:PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Thesis:Hybrid Spirituality and Religious Efficacy of Yogyakarta Spiritual Center

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