Professor James Beckford FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Year of birth
- 1942
- Year of death
- 2022
- Subjects
- Religion, Sociology
Summary
James A. Beckford was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick since 2008. He had a PhD in Sociology and a DLitt from the University of Reading. He taught sociology at the University of Reading, the University of Durham, Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Warwick. He also held visiting positions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, 2000 and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, 2004. He was elected President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion in 1988-89, Vice-President of the International Sociological Association from 1994 to 1998, President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion from 1999 to 2003, and President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in 2010-11. Since 1991 he was also a Governor of Inform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements). The University of Lausanne conferred on him the title of Docteur ès Sciences des Religions honoris causa in 2014.
Last post
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Warwick
Past appointments
University of Warwick Professor of Sociology
1989 -
University of Warwick Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
1989 -
University of Warwick Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Warwick
1989 -
Loyola University, Chicago Professor of Sociology
1987 - 1989
University of Durham Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Sociology
1973 - 1987
Publications
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Professor Helen Margetts FBA
The relationship between government, politics and digital technology including: digital government; politics and social media; public policy-making and data-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence
Professor Adrian Favell FBA
International migration and mobilities; comparative citizenship, multiculturalism and immigration politics; sociology of the EU, particularly free movement and cosmopolitanism; urban studies; political demography; post-growth cultures; Japanese contemporary art and architecture
Professor Sari Hanafi FBA
The sociology of religion; connection of moral philosophy to the social sciences; the sociology of (forced) migration applied to the Palestinian refugees; politics of scientific research
