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    The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: critical essays.Simon Susen & Bryan S. Turner (eds.) - 2011 - New York: Anthem Press.
    Pierre Bourdieu is widely regarded as one of the most influential sociologists of his generation, and yet the reception of his work in different cultural contexts and academic disciplines has been varied and uneven. This volume maps out the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social and political thought from the standpoint of classical European sociology and from the broader perspective of transatlantic social science. It brings together contributions from prominent scholars in the field, providing a range of perspectives on (...)
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    Cosmopolitan Virtue, Globalization and Patriotism.Bryan S. Turner - 2002 - Theory, Culture and Society 19 (1):45-63.
    This article is a contribution to the revival of `virtue ethics'. If we regard human rights as a crucial development in the establishment of global institutions of justice and equality, then we need to explore the obligations that correspond to such rights. It is argued that cosmopolitan virtue a respect for other cultures and an ironic stance towards one's own culture spells out this obligation side of the human rights movement. Cosmopolitanism of course can assume very different forms. The article (...)
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    The Discourse of Diet.Bryan S. Turner - 1982 - Theory, Culture and Society 1 (1):23-32.
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  4. A Note on Nostalgia.Bryan S. Turner - 1987 - Theory, Culture and Society 4 (1):147-156.
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    Body & Society: An Introduction.Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (1):1-12.
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    Ritual, belief and habituation: Religion and religions from the axial age to the Anthropocene.Bryan S. Turner - 2017 - European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1):132-145.
    It is a common complaint that sociology has little regard for history. One important exception to this standard criticism is the sociology of religion of Robert N. Bellah and his ‘revival’ of Karl Jasper’s notion of the axial age. In this article, Bellah’s evolutionary notions of religion are explored within a debate about historical disjunctures and continuities. A significant challenge to the idea of the continuity of axial-age religions comes from the notion of an Anthropocene. Our relationship to nature has (...)
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    Body & Society: An Introduction.Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (1):1-12.
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    The Enclave Society: Towards a Sociology of Immobility.Bryan S. Turner - 2007 - European Journal of Social Theory 10 (2):287-304.
    In contemporary sociology, there has been significant interest in the idea of mobility, the decline of the nation state, the rise of flexible citizenship, and the porous quality of political boundaries. There is much talk of medicine without borders and sociology without borders. These social developments are obviously linked to the processes of globalization, leading some to argue that we need a `sociology beyond society' in order to account for these flows and global networks. In this article, I propose an (...)
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    Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male-to-Female Transsexuals by Frank Lewins. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 1996 - Body and Society 2 (4):115-117.
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    Social Fluids: Metaphors and Meanings of Society.Bryan S. Turner - 2003 - Body and Society 9 (1):1-10.
    The human body has been a potent and persistent metaphor for social and political relations throughout human history. For example, different parts of the body have traditionally represented different social functions. We refer to the ‘head of state’ without really recognizing the metaphor, and the heart has been a rich source of ideas about life, imagination and emotions. The heart is the house of the soul and the book of life, and the ‘tables of the heart’ provided an insight into (...)
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    Cosmopolitan Virtue: On Religion in a Global Age.Bryan S. Turner - 2001 - European Journal of Social Theory 4 (2):131-152.
    The sociological debate about globalization has often neglected the place of religion in a global age. This absence is problematic, given the creative role of the world religions in the shaping of the modernization and globalization processes. This article treats globalization as a particular phase of the general process of modernity, and considers religion in terms of four paradoxes. The first (the Nietzsche paradox) argues that, against the received wisdom, fundamentalism is a form of modernization. Although religious fundamentalism may be (...)
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    The Blackwell companion to social theory.Bryan S. Turner (ed.) - 2000 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    The book guides the student and scholar through the vast array of approaches and frameworks that shape contemporary analysis of social reality.
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    Religious Authority and the New Media.Bryan S. Turner - 2007 - Theory, Culture and Society 24 (2):117-134.
    In traditional societies, knowledge is organized in hierarchical chains through which authority is legitimated by custom. Because the majority of the population is illiterate, sacred knowledge is conveyed orally and ritualistically, but the ultimate source of religious authority is typically invested in the Book. The hadith are a good example of traditional practice. These chains of Islamic knowledge were also characteristically local, consensual and lay, unlike in Christianity, with its emergent ecclesiastical bureaucracies, episcopal structures and ordained priests. In one sense, (...)
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    Nostalgia, Postmodernism and the Critique of Mass Culture.Georg Stauth & Bryan S. Turner - 1988 - Theory, Culture and Society 5 (2-3):509-526.
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    Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Religion1.Bryan S. Turner - 2011 - In Simon Susen & Bryan S. Turner (eds.), The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays. Anthem Press. pp. 223.
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    Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of Cartesian Dualism: Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 256, ISBN 978—0—521—67587—1 paperback, $24.99 Reviewed by Bryan S. Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 2008 - Body and Society 14 (3):129-133.
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    Outline of a Theory of Generations.Bryan S. Turner & Ron Eyerman - 1998 - European Journal of Social Theory 1 (1):91-106.
    The concept of generation has had little refinement and application in recent sociology. After reviewing the literature, this article modifies Mannheim's original conceptualization through Bourdieu's notion of habitus, with the aim of providing a framework for the comparative study of generations. To this end, generation is defined as a cohort of persons passing through time who come to share a common habitus, hexis and culture, a function of which is to provide them with a collective memory that serves to integrate (...)
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    Pierre Bourdieu and Public Liturgies.Bryan S. Turner - 2013 - Social Epistemology 27 (3-4):287-294.
    The sociology of language has been concerned primarily with the use of language in everyday interactions, resulting in important theoretical contributions, particularly to conversation analysis. In responding to Simon Susen’s “Bourdieusian reflections on language: Unavoidable conditions of the real speech situation”, which emphasizes the inherent “sociality” of symbolic forms, this article directs attention to an important location of language, namely to its role in public rituals or liturgies. Looking at the history of the Book of Common Prayer within the framework (...)
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    Das Abendland: The politics of Europe’s religious borders.Bryan S. Turner & Rosario Forlenza - 2019 - Critical Research on Religion 7 (1):6-23.
    The religious borders of Europe, which are more evident and controversial than ever, challenge established forms of political legitimacy and the legal requirements for citizenship. Perhaps covertly rather than overtly, they shape politics and policies. While scholars have once again resorted to Edward Said’s Orientalism to describe the dynamic at play, this article argues that the Orientalism narrative of East and West is too simple to capture the actual complexity of Europe’s borders. There are four religious and thus four cultural-symbolic (...)
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    Profiles in contemporary social theory.Anthony Elliott & Bryan S. Turner (eds.) - 2001 - Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
    This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social (...)
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    Vulnerability, diversity and scarcity: on universal rights.Bryan Stanley Turner & Alex Dumas - 2013 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (4):663-670.
    This article makes a contribution to the on-going debates about universalism and cultural relativism from the perspective of sociology. We argue that bioethics has a universal range because it relates to three shared human characteristics,—human vulnerability, institutional precariousness and scarcity of resources. These three components of our argument provide support for a related notion of ‘weak foundationalism’ that emphasizes the universality and interrelatedness of human experience, rather than their cultural differences. After presenting a theoretical position on vulnerability and human rights, (...)
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    The Two Faces of Sociology: Global or National?Bryan S. Turner - 1990 - Theory, Culture and Society 7 (2-3):343-358.
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    Introduction.Frédéric Volpi & Bryan S. Turner - 2007 - Theory, Culture and Society 24 (2):1-19.
    A global transformation of modes of religious authority has been taking place at an increasing pace in recent years. The social and political implications of the growing dominance of neo-scripturalist discourses on Islam have been particularly noticeable after 11 September 2001. This evolution of religiosity, which is mediated by mass media and new media technology, creates the conditions of existence of a post-Weberian and post-Durkheimian order. In this new social context, legitimacy can be more easily disconnected from the institutionalized framework (...)
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  24. An outline of a general sociology of the body.Bryan S. Turner - 2000 - In The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Blackwell. pp. 481--501.
     
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    Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism.Bryan S. Turner - 2002 - Theory, Culture and Society 19 (4):103-119.
    The Huntington thesis of the clash of cultures and American foreign policy analysis are both aspects of the legacy of Carl Schmitt's distinction between friend and foe. This article explores Schmitt's political theology as the theoretical basis of modern politics in terms of the concepts of state sovereignty and the idea of a permanent emergency. Within this Schmittian framework, the analysis of Islam as presented by writers such as Huntington, Fukuyama and Barber is critically analysed. Their analysis of fundamentalism and (...)
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    The spirit of Luc Boltanski: essays on the "pragmatic sociology of critique".Simon Susen & Bryan S. Turner (eds.) - 2014 - New York: Anthem Press.
    What is the relevance of Luc Boltanski’s ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’ to central issues in contemporary social and political analysis? In seeking to respond to this question, this book contains critical commentaries from prominent social theorists attempting to map out the influence and broad scope of Boltanski’s oeuvre.
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    Introduction – Bodily Performance: On Aura and Reproducibility.Bryan S. Turner - 2005 - Body and Society 11 (4):1-17.
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  28. Reviews : John Hoffman, The Gramscian Challenge, Coercion and Consent in Marxist Political Theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 1986 - Thesis Eleven 15 (1):128-132.
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    Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview.Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner - 2022 - Theory, Culture and Society 39 (7-8):133-158.
    This interview with Mary Douglas took place at Lancaster University in the Religious Studies Department. The main focus of the interview was her recently published book, Purity and Danger, which had already become a classic of British anthropology. The questions and answers ranged mainly over the differences between the physical body, representations of the body, the body as a classificatory system, and social constructivism. Douglas’s early academic years and the influences on her work, such as the role of Roman Catholicism (...)
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  30. Special issue: body modifications.Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner - 1999 - Body and Society 5:2-3.
     
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    The Possibility of Primitiveness: Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies.Bryan S. Turner - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):39-50.
    This article argues that tattooing and body piercing in modern societies cannot be naively innocent acts; such activities cannot recapture primitiveness, because they take place within a social context, where social membership is not expressed through hot loyalties and thick commitments. Body marks in primitive society were obligatory signatures of social membership in solidaristic groups, wherein life-cycle changes were necessarily marked by tattooing and scarification. Modern societies are metaphorically like airport departure lounges where passengers are encouraged to be cool and (...)
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    What is the Sociology of the Body? [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (1):103-107.
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    The politics of Jean-François Lyotard.Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner & Jean-François Lyotard (eds.) - 1998 - New York: Routledge.
    Jean-Francois Lyotard is often considered to be the father of postmodernism. Here leading experts in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler, tackle many of the questions still being asked about this controversial figure.
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  34. The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard Justice and Political Theory.Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner & Jean François Lyotard - 1998
     
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  35. Asia in European sociology.Bryan S. Turner - 2006 - In Gerard Delanty (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. Routledge. pp. 395.
     
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  36. Anthony J Blasi, Sociology of Religion in America: A History of a Secular Fascination with Religion. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 2015 - Critical Research on Religion 3 (1):118-120.
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  37. David G. Hackett, That Religion in Which all Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 2014 - Critical Research on Religion 2 (3):313-317.
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  38. Epilogue: Asia in European Sociology.Bryan S. Turner - 2006 - In Gerard Delanty (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. Routledge.
     
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  39. Marxism and exile : Reflections.Bryan S. Turner - 2009 - In Katie Terezakis (ed.), Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Lexington Books.
     
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  40. Marxism and Exile: Reflections on Intellectual Migrations.Bryan S. Turner - 2009 - In Katie Terezakis (ed.), Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion. Lexington Books. pp. 23.
     
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  41. Religion and the Occupy Wall Street movement.Bryan S. Turner, John Torpey & Emily B. Campbell - 2015 - Critical Research on Religion 3 (2):127-147.
    The Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 and its corollaries, Occupy Sandy and Occupy Debt, have been largely understood as secular movements. In spite of this, religious actors not only participated, but in some cases played an integral role within the movement, lending material support, organizing expertise, and public statements of support. We rely on interviews with faith leaders in New York and Oakland, and engage in an analysis of print and online media to explore the role of religious actors (...)
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  42. The Early Sociology of Religion: Primitive religion.Bryan Stanley Turner (ed.) - 1997 - Routledge.
    Religion was one of the most important issues for early sociology, as is amply demonstrated by the work of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. This set draws together the formative works on this subject, including key works in social anthropology. The collection includes a volume of important early essays, and an original introduction by the editor.
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  43. Understanding Islam: Positions of Knowledge.Bryan S. Turner - 2023 - Edinburgh University Press.
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  44. Interpreting human rights : social science perspectives.Rhiannon Morgan & Bryan S. Turner - 2010 - In Ann Brooks (ed.), Social Theory in Contemporary Asia. Routledge.
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    Personhood and Citizenship.Bryan S. Turner - 1986 - Theory, Culture and Society 3 (1):1-16.
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  46. Forgetfulness and Frailty.Bryan S. Turner - 1998 - In Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner & Jean-François Lyotard (eds.), The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard. Routledge. pp. 13--25.
     
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    Globalization, religion and empire in Asia.Bryan S. Turner - 2007 - In Peter Beyer & Lori G. Beaman (eds.), Religion, Globalization and Culture. Brill. pp. 145--166.
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    Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Eva Illouz. [REVIEW]Bryan S. Turner - 1998 - Body and Society 4 (3):115-117.
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    Review Article.Bryan S. Turner - 1985 - Theory, Culture and Society 2 (3):158-161.
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    Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) and the Origins of Critical Theory.Georg Stauth & Bryan S. Turner - 1992 - Theory, Culture and Society 9 (3):45-63.
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