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Professor Bryan Turner Name: Professor Bryan Turner
Professor of Sociology
Phone
+612 9465 9056
Organisational Area
Faculty of Education and Arts
Department
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Location
North Sydney
Mary MacKillop Place(Bldg.540 - 7 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060)-Level 2-Room2.18
Biographical Information

BA (Leeds), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Leeds), DLitt (Flinders), LittD (Cambridge), FASSA

Professor Turner is Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, at The City University of New York and Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. He has two research grants to study Muslim communities in the United States and Australia with special reference to the Shari’a, and another grant to study the legal debate about same-sex marriages. Turner has written, co-authored, or edited more than seventy books and more than two hundred articles and chapters, including most recently ‘Robert Nisbet and the Problem of Community’ American Sociologist (2014) 45:68-83 and  ‘Religion and contemporary sociological theories’ Current Sociology (2014) 62(3):1-18. In Vulnerability and Human Rights (2006), he presents an interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (2008), first published in 1984, is in its third edition. He is also an author or editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and Sage Handbook of Sociology. He is a founding editor of the journals Body & Society, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Classical Sociology and most recently Journal of Religious and Political Practice. He has had university appointments in Europe, Australia, Singapore, and the United States. Turner is listed in Debrett’s People of Today.

Publications

Recent Publications

The Future of Singapore: Population, Society and the Nature of the State. With Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir. London: Routledge, 2014.

The Religious and the Political: A Comparative Sociology of Religion. Cambridge: CUP, 2013.

Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. Cambridge: CUP, 2012.

Selected Publications

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Editor. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Can we Live Forever? A Sociological and Moral inquiry. London: Anthem Press, 2009.

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

The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984 (rev’d ed. 1996, 2008).

Vulnerability and Human Rights. Penn State University Press, 2006.

Research

Sociology of religion (with special reference to Islam), Citizenship and Human Rights, Sociology of the body (with special reference to ageing, technology and the longevity project), Social and Political Theory

Professional Memberships
  • American Sociological Research Association
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences
  • Australian Sociological Association
  • International Sociological Association
 

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