Bryan R Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 111653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan R Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1All Souls College, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Religion in Secular Society
Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson’s Religion in Secular Society remains one of the clearest articulations of the modern secularization thesis: the claim that modernization brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to religion’s loss of influence at societal, institutional, and individual levels. Largely as a result of inadvertent consequences of modernization (rather t…
Millennialism
New Religious Movements
A Time to Chant
Fifty years ago Sōka Gakkai was an organization of a few hundred people, all of them in Japan. Today it is one of the world's most rapidly expanding religious movements with members in virtually every country in Europe, the Americas, and Australasia, in most of Asia, and in several parts of Africa. It is also increasingly well publicized, sponsoring and promoting a variety of cultural and educational causes and establishing a high profile for its…
The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism
The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism
Part 1 Survival - the sect against the world: sects and the state - some issues and cases sects and society in tension old laws and new religions a sect at law - the case of the exclusive Brethren. Part 2 Evolution, diffusion and appeal: how sects evolve - issues and inferences American sects - their impact on Europe Jehovah's witnesses in a Roman Catholic Country - a survey of nine Belgian congregations becoming a sectarian - motivation and comm…
The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism
Journal Article The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism: Sects and New Religious Movements in Contemporary Society, by Bryan R. Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, xii + 299 pp. $60 Get access John R. Hall John R. Hall University of CaliforniaDavis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 3, Fall 1991, Pages 305–306, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711367 Published: 01 Oc…
The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Bryan Wilson explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society. He examines the controversial social, political, and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of other people, and which at times brings them into conflict with outsiders or with the state. Sects are often subject to negative theological and moral judgem…
The functions of religion
The loss by religion in the West of its social functions is seen as the circumstance that has permitted social, political, and economic agencies to reduce and abandon their support of Christianity. Toleration of different denominations by the state (and ecumenism in the churches) is taken to have become possible as religion was extruded from the institutional framework of society. Once its erstwhile latent fimctions were appropriated and rational…
Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa. Karen E. Fields
Unificationism
status: Published
Morality in the Evolution of the Modern Social System
The early sociologists, at least until the First World War, and perhaps even until the Second, confidently assumed that the course of social evolutlon had an analogue in the process of biological evolution. Such an idea, already anticipated by Auguste Comte, is central to the work of Herbert Spencer and can be easily identified in the optimistic early Durkheim, but it had perhaps its fullest expression, and acquired its special application to mor…
The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, Vol. 5
Journal Article The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, Vol. 5, ed. by Joachim Matthes, Bryan R. Wilson, Leo Laeyendecker, Jean Séguy, Bernice Martin and Henri A. Hilhorst. Amsterdam: Mouton, 1981, 270 pp. $24.50 Get access Ken Menzies Ken Menzies University of Guelph Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 2, Summer 1983, Pages 172–173, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Sympathetic Detachment and Disinterested Involvement
Journal Article Sympathetic Detachment and Disinterested Involvement: A Note on Academic Integrity: in reply to Professor Horowitz Get access Bryan R. Wilson Bryan R. Wilson All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 3, Fall 1983, Pages 183–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711498 Published: 01 October 1983
A riposte
The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, Vol 2/1978
Jehovah's Witnesses in a Catholic Country / Les Témoins de Jéhovah dans un pays catholique [A Survey of Nine Belgian Congregations]
Dobbelaere Karel, Wilson Bryan R. Jehovah's Witnesses in a Catholic Country / Les Témoins de Jéhovah dans un pays catholique [A Survey of Nine Belgian Congregations]. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°50/1, 1980. pp. 89-110
The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, Volume I/1977
The new religions
Becoming a Sectarian
During the period of their emergence and growth, sects are generally discussed in terms of opprobrium, perhaps because most of those who have written about them have been people not only of other theological persuasions, but often people with vested professional interests in sustaining their own theology against that of others, or, occasionally, they have been men of decidedly rationalistic temper, eager to condemn all religion by reference to wh…
The Noble Savages
The Problems of American Education
Aspects of secularization in the West
I t has become fashionable among sociologists of to dispute the contention that this is a secular age. Some, like Luckmann, refer to man's ultimate concerns as his invisible religionas if religion were incapable of diminution. Others, such as David Martin, argue that this is no more secular than any other, and point to the relatively low degree of religious practice (in the churches) in past centuries. Yet others, and Andrew Greeley is conspicuou…
The Noble Savages
The Noble Savage
An Analysis of Sect Development
The maintenance of original value orientations and of pristine character is a crucial problem area encountered by institutions, particularly in the face of changing external or internal social circumstances. The tensions engendered in such conditions are clearly evident in sects, which provide a valuable institutional type for analysis, in that they have an explicit value commitment, are clearly circumscribed organizations, and are peculiarly sel…
Religion in Secular Society
Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson’s Religion in Secular Society remains one of the clearest articulations of the modern secularization thesis: the claim that modernization brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to religion’s loss of influence at societal, institutional, and individual levels. Largely as a result of inadvertent consequences of modernization (rather t…
Morality in the Evolution of the Modern Social System
The early sociologists, at least until the First World War, and perhaps even until the Second, confidently assumed that the course of social evolutlon had an analogue in the process of biological evolution. Such an idea, already anticipated by Auguste Comte, is central to the work of Herbert Spencer and can be easily identified in the optimistic early Durkheim, but it had perhaps its fullest expression, and acquired its special application to mor…
Patterns of Sectarianism
The Teacher's Role--A Sociological Analysis
An Errand of Mercy
The Pentecostalist Minister
The Pentecostal movement is the most recent widespread separatist movement in Christian fundamentalism, and Pentecostal groups in Great Britain have gradually, even if only partially, followed the familiar process of passing from sects to denominations: one feature of this development has been the acceptance of permanent, paid ministers. The movement still retains a distinctly sectarian ideology but has recruited by revivalism a less radically se…
Jehovah's Witnesses in Kenya
The Watchtower movement, as Jehovah's Witnesses were originally known--figures largely in the twentieth century history of Zambia, Malawi, and Rhodesia, partly because of the activities of break-away and imitative movements which disseminated highly-coloured versions of official Watchtower teaching, 1) and partly because of more recent conflicts between the newly independent states and official Watchtower adherents (known, since 1931, as Jehovah'…
Magic and the Millennium
American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939
Billy Sunday Was His Real Name
The functions of religion
The loss by religion in the West of its social functions is seen as the circumstance that has permitted social, political, and economic agencies to reduce and abandon their support of Christianity. Toleration of different denominations by the state (and ecumenism in the churches) is taken to have become possible as religion was extruded from the institutional framework of society. Once its erstwhile latent fimctions were appropriated and rational…
Unificationism
status: Published
Sympathetic Detachment and Disinterested Involvement
Journal Article Sympathetic Detachment and Disinterested Involvement: A Note on Academic Integrity: in reply to Professor Horowitz Get access Bryan R. Wilson Bryan R. Wilson All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 3, Fall 1983, Pages 183–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711498 Published: 01 October 1983
Jehovah's Witnesses in a Catholic Country / Les Témoins de Jéhovah dans un pays catholique [A Survey of Nine Belgian Congregations]
Dobbelaere Karel, Wilson Bryan R. Jehovah's Witnesses in a Catholic Country / Les Témoins de Jéhovah dans un pays catholique [A Survey of Nine Belgian Congregations]. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°50/1, 1980. pp. 89-110
The Noble Savages
The Migrating Sects
Sects and Society
Billy Sunday Was His Real Name
Apparition et Persistance des Sectes dans un Milieu Social en évolution
Wilson Bryan R. Apparition et Persistance des Sectes dans un Milieu Social en évolution. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°5, 1958. pp. 140-150
American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939
The Pursuit of the Millennium.Norman Cohn
An Analysis of Sect Development
The maintenance of original value orientations and of pristine character is a crucial problem area encountered by institutions, particularly in the face of changing external or internal social circumstances. The tensions engendered in such conditions are clearly evident in sects, which provide a valuable institutional type for analysis, in that they have an explicit value commitment, are clearly circumscribed organizations, and are peculiarly sel…
The Pentecostalist Minister
The Pentecostal movement is the most recent widespread separatist movement in Christian fundamentalism, and Pentecostal groups in Great Britain have gradually, even if only partially, followed the familiar process of passing from sects to denominations: one feature of this development has been the acceptance of permanent, paid ministers. The movement still retains a distinctly sectarian ideology but has recruited by revivalism a less radically se…
Trumpet Call of Reformation
An Errand of Mercy
The Teacher's Role--A Sociological Analysis
Sects and Society
The Suburban Captivity of the Churches
Sects and Society
Typologie des sectes dans une perspective dynamique et comparative
Wilson Bryan R. Typologie des sectes dans une perspective dynamique et comparative. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°16, 1963. pp. 49-63
Saints and Sectaries
Sources of Religious Sentiment
Living Springs. New Religious Movements in Western Europe
Christian Science To-Day
The Migrating Sects
Establishment, Sectarianism and Partisanship
Sociology of Christianity. International Bibliography
The Sacred Canopy
Religion in Secular Society
Patterns of Sectarianism
Patterns of Sectarianism
Rationality
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