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Bryan R. Wilson
Bryan Ronald Wilson, (25 June 1926 – 9 October 2004), was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (1971–75). He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963.
Wilson was the author of several influential books on new religious movements, including ''Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science, and Christadelphians'' (1961), ''Magic and the Millennium'' (1973), and ''The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism'' (1990).
==Academic life==
Wilson was born in Leeds. He spent his undergraduate years at University College, Leicester, obtaining an External BSc (Econ) with First Class Honours from the University of London in 1952.〔''Secularization, Rationalism, and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan R. Wilson.'' Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, p. v ((excerpt )).〕 He continued his studies under the supervision of Donald MacRae at the London School of Economics, where he was awarded his PhD in 1955 for a thesis entitled ''Social aspects of religious sects: A study of some contemporary groups in Great Britain with special reference to a Midland city''.〔("Wilson, Bryan Ronald" ), Senate House Libraries, University of London.〕 His thesis formed the basis of his first book, ''Sects and Society'' (1961).〔
He took up a lecturing post at the University of Leeds, a position he held until 1962 when he became Reader in Sociology at Oxford. A year later he became a Fellow of All Souls, and returned there after each of his many sojourns in Europe, America, Africa, Asia, or Australia as a researcher or Visiting Professor. In 1984 the University of Oxford conferred upon him a DLitt. In 1992 the Catholic University of Leuven, Louvain, Belgium, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion.〔
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