Bryan S. Turner

Bio: Bryan S. Turner is an academic researcher from Australian Catholic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizenship & Politics. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 511 publications receiving 21116 citations. Previous affiliations of Bryan S. Turner include King's College London & City University of New York.

Islam, Public Religions and the Secularization Debate1

Abstract: By now there is much academic talk about the limitations and failures of the conventional secularization thesis and much has consequently been written about religious revivalism. In the 1960s sociologists of religion like Bryan Wilson (1966 and 1976) confidently predicted the decline of religion as a result of modernization. There is now the general conclusion that the secularization thesis was too narrow and too specific to Europe. Whereas sociologists of religion treated the United States as exceptional because its religious patterns did not appear to support the association of modernity with secularization, we now look towards northern Europe as the principal example of ‘exceptionalism’.

Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism:

Abstract: EDWARD SAID was a prolific author who made major contributions to various aspects of modern scholarship. These disparate contributions to literary theory, the history of ideas, music, the sociology of intellectuals, and political analysis were integrated around a critique of western assumptions about other cultures, namely around his critique of Orientalism. In 1978 Orientalism launched his international academic reputation and it has remained central to understanding his work, including his more overtly political journalism on Israel and the Palestinian movement. His study, which applied Michel Foucault’s methods to the textual analysis of the history of western (predominantly French) interpretations of the Orient, has often been narrowly interpreted. At one level Orientalism examined the literary conditions by which a static and regressive Orient was constantly reproduced in western literature, but Said had a larger purpose which was to see how scholarship could transcend simple dichotomies of East and West. He looked to the history of philology and Oriental sciences to see how negative Otherness could be transcended by a broader moral vision of the common culture of humanity. His work on Orientalism radically transformed the field of Oriental studies. This intellectual quest was closely related to his personal history in which he experienced the modern world from the standpoint of an exile. A major component of his discussion of intellectuals and Orientalism has been somewhat neglected, namely his tentative and uncertain moves towards what we may refer to as ‘an ethic of cosmopolitan care’ which charted a way out of Orientalism. His recent autobiography Out of Place (1999) captured his persistent mood of exile and dislocation. He was partly situated in the West in his identity as ‘Edward’ and partly in the East in his role as ‘Said’. His scholarly concerns were consistently focused on such

The sociology of Islam : collected essays of Bryan S. Turner

Abstract: Contents: Preface, Daniel Martin Varisco Introduction: Bryan Turner: building the sociology of Islam Introduction to Section I Classical Approaches - Understanding Islam, Bryan S. Turner Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses Origins and tradition in Islam and Christianity State, science and economy in traditional societies: some problems in Weberian sociology of science Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam. Introduction to Section II: Orientalist Debate - Positioning Islam, Bryan S. Turner Orientalism, Islam and capitalism On the concept of axial space : Orientalism and the originary Orientalism, or the politics of the text Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue. Introduction to Section III Islam Today - Sociological Perspectives, Bryan S. Turner Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam Religious authority and the new media Women, piety and space: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia, Joy Kooi-Chin Tong and Bryan S. Turner The body and piety: the hijab and marriage, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius Pereira and Bryan S. Turner Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West, Bryan S. Turner and Berna Zengin Arslan Appendix Index.

Possessions and the extended self.

Abstract: Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

The archaeology of knowledge

Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.