James Arthur Beckford

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Obituary| August 01 2022 James Arthur Beckford: 1 December 1942 – 10 May 2022 Eileen Barker Eileen Barker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2022) 26 (1): 138–140. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.138 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Eileen Barker; James Arthur Beckford: 1 December 1942 – 10 May 2022. Nova Religio 1 August 2022; 26 (1): 138–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.138 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search It is with great sadness that scholars of religion throughout the world learned of the death, after a short illness, of Jim Beckford, one of the foremost of contemporary sociologists of religion. His writings have been influential, not merely in academia, but also in informing international policy in a number of practical areas, particularly on issues relating to new religious movements and the prison service. Having obtained a First Class BA in French Studies at the University of Reading in 1965, Jim moved over to the sociology department where he both taught and researched for a PhD, later published as his widely acclaimed monograph, The Trumpet of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses (Blackwell, 1975). In 1973 he moved to Durham University, then, in 1988, took up a one-year appointment at Loyola University in Chicago, returning to England in 1989 to become Professor of Sociology at the University of... You do not currently have access to this content.