JIM BECKFORD’S PUBLICATIONS:
(i) Sole- and co-authored Books
The Trumpet of Prophecy. A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1975. xii + 244 pp.
Religious Organization. A Trend Report and Bibliography. The Hague: Mouton,
1975, 170 pp.
Cult Controversies: Societal Responses to New Religious Movements. London and
New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985, viii + 327 pp.
Religion and Advanced Industrial Society. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, xii + 189
pp.
[Italian translation: Religione e Società Industriale Avanzata. Rome: Borla, 1991]
Religion in Prison: Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (with S. Gilliat), 1998.
Consultant to: Claire Mason New Religious Movements. The Impact
on Our Lives. London: Hodder Headline, 2003
Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003
(Polish translation: Teoria społeczna a religia. Krakow: Nomos,
2006. Translated by Magdalena Kunz and Tomasz Kunz)
Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France.
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005 (with D. Joly and F. Khosrokhavar).
Les Musulmans en Prison en Grande-Bretagne et en France. Louvainla-Neuve : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2007 (with D. Joly and
F. Khosrokhavar).
(ii) Edited books and journal issues
‘Jehovah's Witnesses World-Wide’, Social Compass 24 (1) 1977 (guest editor)
‘Social Dissension of Young People and New Religious Movements’, Social
Compass 30 (1) 1983 (guest editor)
New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Paris: UNESCO and London:
Sage, 1986, xv + 237 pp. 2nd edition 1991.
[Italian translation Nuove Forme del Sacro. Movimenti Religiosi e Mutamenti
Sociale. Bologna: il Mulino, 1990]
The Changing Face of Religion (ed. with T. Luckmann). London: Sage, 1989, 178
pp.
‘The Sociology of Religion: International Perspectives’, Sociological Analysis S,
1990 (guest editor)
Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism (ed. with E. Barker & K. Dobbelaere).
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. London: Routledge, 2003
(ed. with J.T. Richardson)
Social Compass 51 (2) 2004 (guest editor)
Social Compass 52 (2) 2005 (guest editor)
Social Compass 53 (2) 2006 (guest editor)
Social Compass 54 (2) 2007 (guest editor)
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates (ed. with
John Walliss), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (ed. with N.J.
Demerath III), London: Sage, November 2007
(iii) Reports
Human Rights in the Cultural and Religious Traditions. Paris: UNESCO, 1986
(With S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and Other Faiths in a Multi-Faith Society’,
Report to the Church of England and the Leverhulme Trust, July 1996, ix + 520pp.
‘Report on Controversial Religious Groups in the U.K.’, Report to the Institute for
Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University, Japan, December 1996, 24pp.
‘New religious movements in the UK’, report submitted to the Deutscher Bundestag,
Enquete-Kommission “Sogenannte Sekten and Psychogruppen”. May, 1997
Review of the evidence base on faith communities’. London: Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister, 100 pp. (with R.Gale, D. Owen, C. Peach and P. Weller), 2006,
online document at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/review
(iv) Articles and chapters
1.
'The embryonic stage of a religious sect's development', A Sociological
Yearbook of Religion in Britain, 5, 1972: 11-32.
2.
'A Korean evangelistic movement in the West', pp.319-335 in The
Contemporary Metamorphoses of Religion? Acts of the 12th International
Conference of the Sociology of Religion. Lille: Editions CISR, 1973.
3.
'Two contrasting types of sectarian organization', pp.70-85 in Roy Wallis (ed.)
Sectarianism. London: Peter Owen, 1975.
4.
'Korean Christ', New Humanist 91 (5) 1975: 125-126.
5.
'Organization, ideology and recruitment: the structure of the Watchtower
movement', The Sociological Review 23 (4) 1975: 893-909.
6.
'New wine in new bottles: a departure from the church-sect conceptual
tradition', Social Compass 23 (1) 1976: 71-85
7.
[Reprinted as 'Atarashii shu wa atarashii yoki ni', Shukyo Kenkyu 52 (2) 1978:
103-126. Translated by H. Yamanaka]
8.
'Faith and works', Sociology 10 (2) 1976: 335-348 (review article).
9.
'Structural dependence in religious organizations: from "skid-row" to Watch
Tower', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 15 (2) 1976: 169-175.
10.
'Moonies on the wane in Britain', Psychology Today [UK edition] 9 (2) 1976:
22-23.
11.
'The explanation of religious movements', International Social Science Journal
29 (2) 1977: 235-249.
12.
'Testimoni di Geova. I problemi di un movimento in espansione',
Internazionale IDOC, 8, 1977: 45-52 [translated].
13.
'Sociological stereotypes of the religious sect', The Sociological Review 26 (1)
1978: 109-123.
14.
'Accounting for conversion', The British Journal of Sociology 29 (2) 1978:
249-262.
15.
'Through the looking-glass and out the other side: withdrawal from the
Reverend Moon's Unification Church', Les Archives de Sciences Sociales des
Religions 45 (1) 1978: 95-116.
16.
'Cults and cures', The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 5 (4) 1978: 225257.
17.
'New religious movements in Japan', Bulletin of the British Association for the
History of Religions, 24, 1978: 6-7.
18.
'Gendai irigisu ni okeru seinen to shukyo' (Youth and religion in Britain),
Toyo Gakujutsu Kenkyo 18 (3) 1979: 45-55 [translated by T. Nakano]
19.
'Politics and the anti-cult movement', The Annual Review of the Social
Sciences of Religion, 3, 1979: 169-90 [excerpted in The New Religious
Movements Newsletter 1 (3-4) 1979: 3-16; and The Interfaith Bulletin,
January 1981: 4-7]
20.
'Cults, controversy and control: a comparative analysis of the problems posed
by new religious movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and France',
Sociological Analysis 42 (3) 1981: 249-264.
21.
'A typology of family responses to a new religious movement', Marriage and
Family Review 4 (3-4) 1981: 41-55 [reprinted in F. Kaslow & M. Sussman
(eds.) Cults and the Family. New York: The Haworth Press, 1982]
22.
'Functionalism and ethics in sociology: the relationship between "ought" and
"function"', The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 5, 1981:
106-135.
23.
'Beyond the pale: cults, culture and conflict', pp.284-301 in Eileen Barker
(ed.) New Religious Movements: a Perspective for Understanding Society.
New York and Toronto: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1982.
24.
'Anti-cult sentiment in comparative perspective: preliminary observations',
Conscience et Liberte, 23, 1982: 62-68.
25.
'The ideologies of privacy', Current Sociology 30 (2) 1982: 43-82.
26.
'The public response to new religious movements in the U.K.', Social Compass
30 (1) 1983: 49-62.
[revised for Youth and Social Policy, 9, Summer 1984: 21-35]
27.
28.
(With James T. Richardson) 'A bibliography of social scientific studies of
new religious movements', Social Compass 30 (1) 1983: 111-135.
29.
'The restoration of "power" to the sociology of religion', Sociological Analysis
44 (1) 1983: 11-32. [Reprinted pp. 13-37 in T. Robbins & R. Robertson (eds.)
Church/State Problems. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987]
30.
'The State and control of new religious movements', pp. 115-130 in Acts of the
17th International Conference of the Sociology of Religion. Paris: Editions
CISR, 1983.
31.
(With Annette P. Hampshire) 'Religious sects and the concept of deviance:
the Mormons and the Moonies', The British Journal of Sociology 34 (2) 1983:
208-229.
32.
'Talking of apostasy: telling tales and "telling" tales', pp.77-97 in P. Abell and
N.G. Gilbert (eds.) Accounts and Action. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1983.
33.
'Some questions about the relationship between scholars and the new religious
movements', Sociological Analysis 44 (3) 1983: 184-195.
34.
'"Brainwashing" and "deprogramming" in Britain: the social sources of anticult sentiment', pp.122-138 in D.G. Bromley and J.T. Richardson (eds.) The
Brainwashing and Deprogramming Controversy. New York and Toronto: the
Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.
35.
'The cult problem in five countries: the social construction of religious
controversy' pp.195-214 in Eileen Barker (ed.) Of Gods and Men: New
Religious Movements in the West. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press,
1984.
36.
'Religious organisation: a survey of some recent publications', Les Archives
de Sciences Sociales des Religions 57 (1) 1984: 83-102.
37.
'Holistic imagery and ethics in new religious and healing movements', Social
Compass 31 (2-3) 1984: 259-272.
38.
'Religious organization' pp. 125-138 in Phillip E. Hammond (ed.) The Sacred
in a Secular Age. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1985.
39.
(With Martine Levasseur) 'New religious movements in Western Europe' pp.
29-54 in J.A. Beckford (ed.) New Religious Movements and Rapid Social
Change. Paris: UNESCO and London: Sage, 1986.
40.
'The insulation and isolation of the sociology of religion', Sociological
Analysis 46 (4) 1985: 347-354.
41.
'New religious movements and healing: a sociological overview' pp. 72-93 in
R. Kenneth Jones (ed.) Sickness and Sectarianism: an Analysis of the
Relationship between Medicine and Religion. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1985.
42.
'Cults and new religious movements: an overview', The Encyclopedia of
Religion. Vol. 10 pp. 390-94. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
43.
'The positive science of ethics in Germany'. (A translation [with G. Schroeter]
of E. Durkheim 'La science positive de la morale en Allemagne', La Revue
Philosophique, 1887.) The History of Sociology 7 (2) 1987: 191-251.
44.
'Is the sacred a sociological category ?', Journal of Oriental Studies 26 (1)
1987: 33-39.
45.
'Social movements as instruments of secularization and/or sacralization of
society: commentary', Acts of the 19th International Conference for the
Sociology of Religion, Lausanne: Editions CISR, 1987: 127-33.
46.
‘Nuovi movimenti religiosi e diritti umani’ Pace, diritti dell’uomo, diritti dei
popoli 1 (2) 1987: 45-50. [translated by E. Pace]
47.
'The literature on Western new religious movements outside the USA and the
UK', pp.17-23 in T. Robbins Cults, Converts and Charisma: the Sociology of
New Religious Movements. London: Sage publications, 1988.
48.
(With Melanie A. Cole) `British and American responses to new religious
movements', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
70 (3) 1988: 209-24.
49.
`The sociology of religion 1945-1989', Social Compass 37 (1) 1990: 45-64.
[Reprinted in Turkish translation by N. Tinaz as ‘1945-1989 yillari arasinda
dîn sosyolojîsî’, D.E.Ü.Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8, 1994: 473-502]
50.
`Shukyo shakai-gaku no han-seiki' [trans. K. Ishii] Journal of Oriental Studies,
29 (2) 1990: 65-91.
51.
`The sociology of religion and social problems', Sociological Analysis 51 (1)
1990: 1-14.
52.
`Ferment without synthesis', The American Sociologist 21 (3) 1990: 283-85.
53.
`Religion and power', pp. 43-60 in T. Robbins & D. Anthony (eds) In Gods
We Trust. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Books, 2nd ed., 1990.
54.
`Socialization in small religious movements', pp.135-59 in L. Laeyendecker et
al., (eds.) Experiences and Explanations. Historical and Sociological Essays
on Religion in Everyday Life. Ljouwert: Fryske Akademy, 1990.
55.
`Great Britain: voluntarism and sectional interests', pp. 30-63 in R. Wuthnow
(ed.) Between States and Markets. The Voluntary Sector in Comparative
Perspective. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
56.
`Quasi-marxisms and the sociology of religion' in D.G. Bromley (ed) Religion
and the Social Order. Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, vol.1, 1991: 17-35.
57.
`Politics and religion in England and Wales' Daedalus, 120 (3) 1991: 179-201.
58.
'Religion, modernity and post-modernity' pp. 11-23 in B.R. Wilson (ed)
Religion: Contemporary Issues. The All Souls' Seminars in the Sociology of
Religion. London: Bellew, 1992.
59.
'Religione e società nel Regno Unito', pp. 217-89 in Aa.Vv. La religione degli
europei, Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1992.
60.
'Tendenze e prospettive', pp. 485-502 in Ibid.
61.
‘Domination and its discontents: Michel Foucault’, pp. 365-66 in Bocock, R.
& Thompson, K. (eds) Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity. Cambridge:
Polity, 1992 [reprinted 3 times]
62.
Entries on 'Sect', 'Revivalism' and 'Religion' in W. Outhwaite and T.
Bottomore (eds) The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social
Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 [revised in 2nd edition, edited by William
Outhwaite, 2003]
63.
'States, governments and the management of controversial new religious
movements' pp.125-43 in E. Barker, J. Beckford & K. Dobbelaere (eds)
Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
64.
'Ecologie et religion dans les sociétés industrielles avancées', pp.239-49 in D.
Hervieu-Léger (ed) Religion et Ecologie. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1993.
65.
(With T. Robbins) 'Religious movements and church-state issues' pp 199-218
in D. Bromley & J. Hadden (eds) The Handbook on Cults and Sects in
America (Part A). Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, 1993.
66.
'Secularization and its discontents', Scriptura S12, 1993: 1-18.
67.
'Are new religious movements new social movements?', Scriptura S12, 1993:
19-34.
68.
'Religious change in the UK', Scriptura S12, 1993: 81-107.
69.
(With A. Suzara) 'A new religious and healing movement in the Philippines',
Religion 24 (2) 1994: 117-42.
70.
'The media and new religious movements', pp. 143-48 in James R. Lewis (ed.)
From the Ashes. Making Sense of Waco. Lanham: MD.: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1994.
71.
‘On new religious movements’, pp. 377-84 in Religions Sans Frontières?
Present and Future Trends of Migration, Culture, and Communication.
Rome: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento per l’Informazione
e l’Editoria, 1994.
72.
'Religion, self-help and privatization', pp. 318-41 in W. Sprondel
(Herausgeber) Die Objektivität der Ordnungen und ihre kommunikative
Konstruktion. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994.
73.
‘Final reflections’ pp. 160-68 in P. Jupp and J. Fulton (eds) Religion in
Contemporary Europe. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994
74.
‘The mass media and new religious movements’, ISKCON Communications
Journal 4, 1994: 17-24.
75.
‘1945-1989 Yillari arasinda din sosyolojisi’, D.E.Ü Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi,
VIII, 1994: 473-502 (Trans. N. Tinaz)
76.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and other faith communities in a
multi-faith society’, World Faiths Encounter, 10, 1995: 59-64
77.
‘Cults, conflicts and journalists’, pp.99-111 in R. Towler (ed) New Religions
and the New Europe. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995
78.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘The prison chaplaincy. The Church of England and Other
Faiths project’, AmBov Quarterly 60, April, 1996: 16-17.
79.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and other faiths in a multi-faith
society’, Working Papers in Sociology, 21, 1996: 1-53
80.
(with S. Gilliat) ‘Prison chaplaincy and “other faiths”’, Newsheet of the
National Advisory Council of Boards of Visitors, 2, 1996: 6
81.
Scientology, Social Science and the Definition of Religion. Los Angeles:
Freedom Publishing, 1996, 4pp.
82.
'Postmodernity, high modernity and new modernity: three concepts in search
of religion', pp. 30-47 in K. Flanagan & P. Jupp (eds) Postmodernity,
Sociology and Religion. London: Macmillan, 1996.
83.
‘The disenchantment of postmodernity’, New Blackfriars, 78, no. 913, March
1997: 121-28
84.
'Jehovah's Witnesses', ‘Charles Taze Russell’ and ‘Joseph Franklin
Rutherford’ in E.A.Livingstone (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, Oxford University Press,1997
85.
(with W. Ball) ‘Religion, education and city politics: a case study of
community mobilisation’, pp. 193-204 in N. Jewson & S. MacGregor (eds)
Realising Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Transformation. London:
Routledge, 1997
86.
‘Religion and multiculturalism’ Arxius de Sociologia 1 (1) 1997: 31-46
87.
‘The transmission of religion in prison’, Recherches sociologiques 28(3) 1997:
101-12
88.
‘Three paradoxes in the relations between religion and politics in an English
city’, Review of Religious Research, 39 (4) 1998: 363-78
89.
‘Ethnic and religious diversity among prisoners: the politics of prison
chaplaincy’, Social Compass 45 (2) 1998: 265-77
90.
‘Re-enchantment and modernisation: the recent writings of Alain Touraine’,
Papers in Social Theory 1, 1998: 56-73
[reprinted in European Journal of Sociology 1 (2) 1998: 194-203]
91.
92.
‘“Cult” controversies in three European countries’, The Journal of Oriental
Studies 8, 1998: 174-84 [published in translation by T. Nakano as ‘Yroppa
ni okeru karuto rons’ Tyoo Gakujutsu Kenkyo 37 (2) 1998: 178-90]
93.
‘Cults’, ‘Great Britain’ and ‘Religious organization’ in The Encyclopedia of
Politics and Religion. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998
94.
‘Seisaku toshite no shuukyoo kyooiku: eikoku no genjoo kara’ ’ [State
policy on religious education: the current situation in England] pp. 150-71 in
N. Inoue (ed.) Faith in Education. Tokyo: Shinshokan, 1998
95.
‘Secularisation and social solidarity: a social constructionist view’, pp. 141-58
in R. Laermans, B. Wilson & J. Billiet (eds.) Secularization and Social
Integration. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1998
96.
‘The mass media and new religious movements’, pp. 101-19 in B.R. Wilson &
J. Cresswell (eds.) New Religious Movements: challenge and response.
London: Routledge, 1999
97.
‘The politics of defining religion in secular society: from a taken-for-granted
institution to a contested resource’, pp. 23-40 in J.G. Platvoet & A.L.
Molendijk (eds.) The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts
and Contests. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
98.
‘Rational choice theory and prison chaplaincy: the chaplain’s dilemma’,
British Journal of Sociology 50 (4) 1999: 671-85
99.
(With S. Gilliat-Ray) ‘Prison chaplaincy’ pp. 49-64 in S. Horner & M. Stacey
(eds.) Incarceration. Humane and Inhumane: Human Values and Health Care
in British Prisons. London: The Nuffield Trust, 1999
100.
‘The management of religious diversity in England and Wales with special
reference to prison chaplaincy’, MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies 1
(2) 1999: 10pp. (http://www.unesco.org./most/vl1n2bec.htm)
101.
‘Social justice and religion in prison: the case of England and Wales’, Social
Justice Research 12 (4) 1999: 315-22
102.
(with E. Hedges) ‘Holism, healing and the New Age’, pp.169-87 in S.
Sutcliffe & M. Bowman (eds.) Beyond New Age. Exploring Alternative
Spirituality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
103.
‘Religious movements and globalization’, pp. 174-84 in R. Cohen & S. Rai
(eds.) Global Social Movements. London: Athlone Press, 2000
104.
‘Religion, state and prisons’, Religion - Staat – Gesellschaft 1 (1) 2000: 61-74
105.
‘Conclusion: “When the battle’s lost and won”’ 219-33 pp. in M. Archer & J.
Tritter (eds) Rational Choice Theory. London: Routledge, 2000
106.
‘“Start together and finish together.” Shifts in the premises and paradigms
underlying the scientific study of religion’, Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion 39 (4) 2000: 481-95
107.
‘Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena’, pp. 229-48 in R.K.
Fenn (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2001
108.
‘Perspectives sociologiques sur les relations entre modernité et globalisation
religieuse’, pp. 273-82 in J-P. Bastian, F. Champion & K. Rousselet (eds.) La
Globalisation du Religieux. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001
109.
‘Looking backwards and looking forwards’, pp. 131-36 in International Social
Survey Program: Religion et Valeurs, problèmes de méthode et comparaison
internationale. Observatoire des Religions en Suisse, Cahier no. 1, 2001
110.
'Developments in the sociology of religion' pp. 143-63 in R.G. Burgess & A.
Murcott (eds) Developments in Sociology. London: Prentice-Hall, 2001
111.
‘The continuum between “cults” and “normal” religion’. In P. Côté (ed.)
Chercheurs de Dieux dans l'Espace Public. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université
d'Ottawa, 2001: 11-20.
112.
‘The construction and analysis of religion’ Social Compass 48 (3) 2001: 439441
113.
‘Choosing rationality’ Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 12,
2001: 1-22
114.
‘The tension between an established church and equal opportunities in
religion: the case of prison chaplaincy’ in Paula D. Nesbitt (ed.) Religion and
Social Policy. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001: 39-53
115.
‘Doing time: space, time, religious diversity and the sacred in prisons’,
International Review of Sociology 11(3) 2001: 371-82
116.
‘Religious organizations’ in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.)
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford:
Pergamon, 2001: 13127-13132
117.
‘Banal discrimination: equality of respect for beliefs and worldviews in the
UK’, in D. Davis and G. Besier (eds) International Perspectives on Freedom
and Equality of Religious Belief. Waco, TX.: J.M. Dawson Institute of
Church-State Studies, 2002: 25-41.
118.
‘Sans L’Etat pas de transmission de la religion? Le cas de l’Angleterre’, Les
Archives des Sciences sociales des Religions 121, 2003: 57-67
119.
‘The continuum between “cults” and “normal” religion’. In L. Dawson (ed.)
Cults and New Religious Movements. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003:
26-31 (reprint of chapter in P. Côté (ed.) Chercheurs de Dieux dans l'Espace
Public. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2001).
120.
(With James T. Richardson) ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-10 in Challenging Religion:
Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. London: Routledge, 2003
121.
‘Religion: consensus and conflict’ Sociology Review 13 (2) 2003: 8-10
122.
‘Preface’ pp. xi-xiii in Malcolm Gold The Hybridization of an Assembly of
God Church. Proselytism, Retention, and Re-Affiliation. Lampeter: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2003.
123.
‘Why Britain doesn’t go to church’. Online article at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3475483.stm [first posted
18.2.2004].
124.
‘“Dystopia” and the reaction to new religious movements in France’ in James
T. Richardson (ed.) Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the
Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2004: 27-40.
125.
‘Social justice and religion in prison: the case of England and Wales’ in
James T. Richardson (ed.) Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the
Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2004: 237-42.
126.
‘Contemporary configurations of religion’ in O. G. Winsnes (ed.)
Contemporary Religion and Church.. Oslo, Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2004: 926.
127.
‘Introduction’, Social Compass 51 (2) 2004: 147-54
128.
‘New religious movements and globalization’ in P. Lucas & T. Robbins (eds)
New Religious Movements in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2004:
253-63.
129.
‘Religion and postmodernity’, Sociology Review 14 (2) 2004: 2-4
130.
‘La politique du gouvernement travailliste en matière d’enseignement
religieux’ in J-P Willaime and S. Mathieu (eds) Des Maîtres et des Dieux.
Paris: Belin, 2005: 113-20.
131.
‘Muslims in the prisons of Britain and France’, Journal of Contemporary
European Studies 13 (3) 2005: 287-97.
132.
‘Ph.D.-afhandling om “Religiøs pluralisme fra et magtperspektiv”’,
Religionsvidienskabeligt Tidsskrift 47, 2005: 71-82 (with Lene Maria van der
Aa Kühle).
133.
‘Hacia un paradigma de lo Musulmán en Francia y Gran Bretaña’, Revista
Migraciones 18, 2005: 7-46 (with D. Joly).
134.
‘Introduction’, Social Compass 52 (2) 2005: 107-13.
135.
‘A minimalist sociology of religion’ pp. 183-97 in James A. Beckford and
John Walliss (eds) Theorising Religion: Classic and Contemporary Debates.
Ashgate, 2006.
137.
‘The sociology of religion in the Nordic region as seen from the other side of
the North Sea’, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 19 (1) 2006: 1-11.
138.
‘Foreword’ in E. Arweck & P. Collins (eds) Reading Religion in Text and
Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006: xiii-xvi
139.
‘Religion’ Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (ed Bryan S. Turner),
Cambridge University Press, 2006: 505-12.
140.
"'Race' relations and discrimination in prison: the case of Muslims in France
and Britain." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 4 (2) 2006: 1-30 (with
D. Joly).
141.
‘Le communità religiose e lo stato britannico’, Democrazia e diritto, 44 (2)
2006: 124-440 (trad. Elisabetta Horvat).
142.
‘Societal framework in Britain and France: Muslims in prison’, in C. Bertossi
(ed.) European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2006: 171-92 (with D. Joly).
143.
‘New religious movements’ in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (eds)
Encyclopedia of Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2006.
144.
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