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James A. Beckford
James Arthur Beckford (born 1 December 1942) is a British sociologist of religion.〔Swatos, William H.; Kivisto, Peter. (''Encyclopedia of Religion and Society'' ), Rowman Altamira 1998, p. 44, ISBN 978-0-7619-8956-1. Retrieved 20 June 2010.〕 He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the British Academy.〔 In 1988/1989, he served as President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion,〔(Beckford's page ) at the University of Warwick's Department of Sociology website〕 and from 1999 to 2003, as the President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.〔Beckford, James A.; Demerath, Nicholas Jay. ''The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion'', SAGE 2007, p. x, ISBN 978-1-4129-1195-5〕〔Swain, Harriet (29 October 1999). (Glittering Prizes ), ''Times Higher Education''. Retrieved 18 June 2010.〕
Apart from general writings on the sociology of religion, Beckford has been a prolific author of books and articles on new religious movements and society's responses to them. He has also researched and written about religious issues affecting prison inmates.
==Academic positions==
In his early career, Beckford held teaching posts at the Universities of Reading and Durham and at Loyola University Chicago.〔 He founded the British Sociological Association's Study Group for the Sociology of Religion in 1975, serving as its chairman from 1978 to 1983.〔 From 1982 to 1983 Beckford was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.〔 From 1982 to 1986, he was the President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 22, and in 1988/1989 served as the President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.〔〔 He joined the University of Warwick in 1989.〔 From 1999 to 2003, he was the President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.〔 He has also taught as a Visiting Professor in Paris, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2001, and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 2004.〔
Beckford was the editor of ''Current Sociology'' from 1980 to 1987, the Vice-President for Publications of the International Sociological Association from 1994 to 1998, and has been a member of the editorial board of the ''British Journal of Sociology'' since 1998.〔〔 He has chaired the management committee of INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements), a British charity set up by sociologist Eileen Barker with the support of Britain's mainstream churches to provide the public with information on new religious movements, and is co-vice-chairman of the charity's board of governors.〔〔Beckford, James A. (20 June 2008). ("Cults need vigilance, not alarmism" ), ''Church Times''. Retrieved 20 June 2010.〕〔(INFORM website ), section "Who We Are". Retrieved 20 June 2010.〕
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