JIM BECKFORD’S PUBLICATIONS:

(i) Sole- and co-authored Books

The Trumpet of Prophecy. A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975. xii + 244 pp.

Religious Organization. A Trend Report and Bibliography. The Hague: Mouton, 1975, 170 pp.

Cult Controversies: Societal Responses to New Religious Movements. London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985, viii + 327 pp.

Religion and Advanced Industrial Society. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, xii + 189 pp.[Italian translation: Religione e Società Industriale Avanzata. Rome: Borla, 1991]

(with Daiber, K.F., Garelli, F., Giner, S., Hervieu-Léger, D., Sarasa, S., and Tomka, M.) Fede, cultura religiosa e modernità in Francia, Italia, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Germania e Ungheria. Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1992.

Religion in Prison: Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with S. Gilliat), 1998.

Consultant to: Claire Mason New Religious Movements. The Impact on Our Lives. London: Hodder Headline, 2003

Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003

(Polish translation: Teoria społeczna a religia. Krakow: Nomos, 2006. Translated by Magdalena Kunz and Tomasz Kunz)

Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005 (with D. Joly and F. Khosrokhavar).

French translation: Les Musulmans en Prison en Grande-Bretagne et en France. Louvain-la-Neuve : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2007 (with D. Joly and F. Khosrokhavar).

(ii) Edited books and journal issues

‘Jehovah's Witnesses World-Wide’, Social Compass 24 (1) 1977 (guest editor)

‘Social Dissension of Young People and New Religious Movements’, Social Compass 30 (1) 1983 (guest editor)

New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Paris: UNESCO and London: Sage, 1986, xv + 237 pp. 2nd edition 1991.[Italian translation Nuove Forme del Sacro. Movimenti Religiosi e Mutamenti Sociale. Bologna: il Mulino, 1990]

The Changing Face of Religion (ed. with T. Luckmann). London: Sage, 1989, 178 pp.

‘The Sociology of Religion: International Perspectives’, Sociological Analysis S, 1990 (guest editor)

Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism (ed. with E. Barker & K. Dobbelaere). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. London: Routledge, 2003 (ed. with J.T. Richardson)

Social Compass 51 (2) 2004 (guest editor)

Social Compass 52 (2) 2005 (guest editor)

Social Compass 53 (2) 2006 (guest editor)

Social Compass 54 (2) 2007 (guest editor)

Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates (ed. with John Walliss), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006

Social Compass 53 (2) 2006 (guest editor)

The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (co-edited with N.J. Demerath III), London: Sage, November 2007

Migration and Religion, 2 vols, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publications, 2015.

(iii) Reports

Human Rights in the Cultural and Religious Traditions. Paris: UNESCO, 1986

(With S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and Other Faiths in a Multi-Faith Society’, Report to the Church of England and the Leverhulme Trust, July 1996, ix + 520pp.

‘Report on Controversial Religious Groups in the U.K.’, Report to the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University, Japan, December 1996, 24pp.

‘New religious movements in the UK’, report submitted to the Deutscher Bundestag, Enquete-Kommission “Sogenannte Sekten and Psychogruppen”. May, 1997

‘Review of the evidence base on faith communities’. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 100 pp. (with R.Gale, D. Owen, C. Peach and P. Weller), 2006, online document at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/review

(iv) Articles and chapters

1. 'The embryonic stage of a religious sect's development', A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain, 5, 1972: 11-32.

2. 'A Korean evangelistic movement in the West', pp.319-335 in The Contemporary Metamorphoses of Religion? Acts of the 12th International Conference of the Sociology of Religion. Lille: Editions CISR, 1973.

3. 'Two contrasting types of sectarian organization', pp.70-85 in Roy Wallis (ed.) Sectarianism. London: Peter Owen, 1975.

4. 'Korean Christ', New Humanist 91 (5) 1975: 125-126.

5. 'Organization, ideology and recruitment: the structure of the Watchtower movement', The Sociological Review 23 (4) 1975: 893-909.

6. 'New wine in new bottles: a departure from the church-sect conceptual tradition', Social Compass 23 (1) 1976: 71-85

7. [Reprinted as 'Atarashii shu wa atarashii yoki ni', Shukyo Kenkyu 52 (2) 1978: 103-126. Translated by H. Yamanaka]

8. 'Faith and works', Sociology 10 (2) 1976: 335-348 (review article).

9. 'Structural dependence in religious organizations: from "skid-row" to Watch Tower', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 15 (2) 1976: 169-175.

10. 'Moonies on the wane in Britain', Psychology Today [UK edition] 9 (2) 1976: 22-23.

11. 'The explanation of religious movements', International Social Science Journal 29 (2) 1977: 235-249.

12. 'Testimoni di Geova. I problemi di un movimento in espansione', Internazionale IDOC, 8, 1977: 45-52 [translated].

13. 'Sociological stereotypes of the religious sect', The Sociological Review 26 (1) 1978: 109-123.

14. 'Accounting for conversion', The British Journal of Sociology 29 (2) 1978: 249-262.

15. 'Through the looking-glass and out the other side: withdrawal from the Reverend Moon's Unification Church', Les Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 45 (1) 1978: 95-116.

16. 'Cults and cures', The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 5 (4) 1978: 225-257.

17. 'New religious movements in Japan', Bulletin of the British Association for the History of Religions, 24, 1978: 6-7.

18. 'Gendai irigisu ni okeru seinen to shukyo' (Youth and religion in Britain), Toyo Gakujutsu Kenkyo 18 (3) 1979: 45-55 [translated by T. Nakano]

19. 'Politics and the anti-cult movement', The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 3, 1979: 169-90 [excerpted in The New Religious Movements Newsletter 1 (3-4) 1979: 3-16; and The Interfaith Bulletin, January 1981: 4-7]

20. 'Cults, controversy and control: a comparative analysis of the problems posed by new religious movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and France', Sociological Analysis 42 (3) 1981: 249-264.

21. 'A typology of family responses to a new religious movement', Marriage and Family Review 4 (3-4) 1981: 41-55 [reprinted in F. Kaslow & M. Sussman (eds.) Cults and the Family. New York: The Haworth Press, 1982]

22. 'Functionalism and ethics in sociology: the relationship between "ought" and "function"', The Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion, 5, 1981: 106-135.

23. 'Beyond the pale: cults, culture and conflict', pp.284-301 in Eileen Barker (ed.) New Religious Movements: a Perspective for Understanding Society. New York and Toronto: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1982.

24. 'Anti-cult sentiment in comparative perspective: preliminary observations', Conscience et Liberte, 23, 1982: 62-68.

25. 'The ideologies of privacy', Current Sociology 30 (2) 1982: 43-82.

26. 'The public response to new religious movements in the U.K.', Social Compass 30 (1) 1983: 49-62.

27. [revised for Youth and Social Policy, 9, Summer 1984: 21-35]

28. (With James T. Richardson) 'A bibliography of social scientific studies of new religious movements', Social Compass 30 (1) 1983: 111-135.

29. 'The restoration of "power" to the sociology of religion', Sociological Analysis 44 (1) 1983: 11-32. [Reprinted pp. 13-37 in T. Robbins & R. Robertson (eds.) Church/State Problems. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987]

30. 'The State and control of new religious movements', pp. 115-130 in Acts of the 17th International Conference of the Sociology of Religion. Paris: Editions CISR, 1983.

31. (With Annette P. Hampshire) 'Religious sects and the concept of deviance: the Mormons and the Moonies', The British Journal of Sociology 34 (2) 1983: 208-229.

32. 'Talking of apostasy: telling tales and "telling" tales', pp.77-97 in P. Abell and N.G. Gilbert (eds.) Accounts and Action. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1983.

33. 'Some questions about the relationship between scholars and the new religious movements', Sociological Analysis 44 (3) 1983: 184-195.

34. '"Brainwashing" and "deprogramming" in Britain: the social sources of anti-cult sentiment', pp.122-138 in D.G. Bromley and J.T. Richardson (eds.) The Brainwashing and Deprogramming Controversy. New York and Toronto: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

35. 'The cult problem in five countries: the social construction of religious controversy' pp.195-214 in Eileen Barker (ed.) Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984.

36. 'Religious organisation: a survey of some recent publications', Les Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 57 (1) 1984: 83-102.

37. 'Holistic imagery and ethics in new religious and healing movements', Social Compass 31 (2-3) 1984: 259-272.

38. 'Religious organization' pp. 125-138 in Phillip E. Hammond (ed.) The Sacred in a Secular Age. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1985.

39. (With Martine Levasseur) 'New religious movements in Western Europe' pp. 29-54 in J.A. Beckford (ed.) New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Paris: UNESCO and London: Sage, 1986.

40. 'The insulation and isolation of the sociology of religion', Sociological Analysis 46 (4) 1985: 347-354.

41. 'New religious movements and healing: a sociological overview' pp. 72-93 in R. Kenneth Jones (ed.) Sickness and Sectarianism: an Analysis of the Relationship between Medicine and Religion. Aldershot: Gower Press, 1985.

42. 'Cults and new religious movements: an overview', The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 10 pp. 390-94. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

43. 'The positive science of ethics in Germany'. (A translation [with G. Schroeter] of E. Durkheim 'La science positive de la morale en Allemagne', La Revue Philosophique, 1887.) The History of Sociology 7 (2) 1987: 191-251.

44. 'Is the sacred a sociological category ?', Journal of Oriental Studies 26 (1) 1987: 33-39.

45. 'Social movements as instruments of secularization and/or sacralization of society: commentary', Acts of the 19th International Conference for the Sociology of Religion, Lausanne: Editions CISR, 1987: 127-33.

46. ‘Nuovi movimenti religiosi e diritti umani’ Pace, diritti dell’uomo, diritti dei popoli 1 (2) 1987: 45-50. [translated by E. Pace]

47. 'The literature on Western new religious movements outside the USA and the UK', pp.17-23 in T. Robbins Cults, Converts and Charisma: the Sociology of New Religious Movements. London: Sage publications, 1988.

48. (With Melanie A. Cole) `British and American responses to new religious movements', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 70 (3) 1988: 209-24.

49. `The sociology of religion 1945-1989', Social Compass 37 (1) 1990: 45-64. [Reprinted in Turkish translation by N. Tinaz as ‘1945-1989 yillari arasinda dîn sosyolojîsî’, D.E.Ü.Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8, 1994: 473-502]

50. `Shukyo shakai-gaku no han-seiki' [trans. K. Ishii] Journal of Oriental Studies, 29 (2) 1990: 65-91.

51. `The sociology of religion and social problems', Sociological Analysis 51 (1) 1990: 1-14.

52. `Ferment without synthesis', The American Sociologist 21 (3) 1990: 283-85.

53. `Religion and power', pp. 43-60 in T. Robbins & D. Anthony (eds) In Gods We Trust. New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Books, 2nd ed., 1990.

54. `Socialization in small religious movements', pp.135-59 in L. Laeyendecker et al., (eds.) Experiences and Explanations. Historical and Sociological Essays on Religion in Everyday Life. Ljouwert: Fryske Akademy, 1990.

55. `Great Britain: voluntarism and sectional interests', pp. 30-63 in R. Wuthnow (ed.) Between States and Markets. The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

56. `Quasi-marxisms and the sociology of religion' in D.G. Bromley (ed) Religion and the Social Order. Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, vol.1, 1991: 17-35.

57. `Politics and religion in England and Wales' Daedalus, 120 (3) 1991: 179-201.

58. 'Religion, modernity and post-modernity' pp. 11-23 in B.R. Wilson (ed) Religion: Contemporary Issues. The All Souls' Seminars in the Sociology of Religion. London: Bellew, 1992.

59. 'Religione e società nel Regno Unito', pp. 217-89 in Aa.Vv. La religione degli europei, Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1992.

60. 'Tendenze e prospettive', pp. 485-502 in Ibid.

61. ‘Domination and its discontents: Michel Foucault’, pp. 365-66 in Bocock, R. & Thompson, K. (eds) Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 1992 [reprinted 3 times]

62. Entries on 'Sect', 'Revivalism' and 'Religion' in W. Outhwaite and T. Bottomore (eds) The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 [revised in 2nd edition, edited by William Outhwaite, 2003]

63. 'States, governments and the management of controversial new religious movements' pp.125-43 in E. Barker, J. Beckford & K. Dobbelaere (eds) Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

64. 'Ecologie et religion dans les sociétés industrielles avancées', pp.239-49 in D. Hervieu-Léger (ed) Religion et Ecologie. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1993.

65. (With T. Robbins) 'Religious movements and church-state issues' pp 199-218 in D. Bromley & J. Hadden (eds) The Handbook on Cults and Sects in America (Part A). Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, 1993.

66. 'Secularization and its discontents', Scriptura S12, 1993: 1-18. (reprinted in N. Meer [ed.] Islam and Modernity. London: Routledge, 2016)

67. 'Are new religious movements new social movements?', Scriptura S12, 1993: 19-34.

68. 'Religious change in the UK', Scriptura S12, 1993: 81-107.

69. (With A. Suzara) 'A new religious and healing movement in the Philippines', Religion 24 (2) 1994: 117-42.

70. 'The media and new religious movements', pp. 143-48 in James R. Lewis (ed.) From the Ashes. Making Sense of Waco. Lanham: MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.

71. ‘On new religious movements’, pp. 377-84 in Religions Sans Frontières? Present and Future Trends of Migration, Culture, and Communication. Rome: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento per l’Informazione e l’Editoria, 1994.

72. 'Religion, self-help and privatization', pp. 318-41 in W. Sprondel (Herausgeber) Die Objektivität der Ordnungen und ihre kommunikative Konstruktion. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994.

73. ‘Final reflections’ pp. 160-68 in P. Jupp and J. Fulton (eds) Religion in Contemporary Europe. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994

74. ‘The mass media and new religious movements’, ISKCON Communications Journal 4, 1994: 17-24.

75. ‘1945-1989 Yillari arasinda din sosyolojisi’, D.E.Ü Ilâhiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, VIII, 1994: 473-502 (Trans. N. Tinaz)

76. (with S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and other faith communities in a multi-faith society’, World Faiths Encounter, 10, 1995: 59-64

77. ‘Cults, conflicts and journalists’, pp.99-111 in R. Towler (ed) New Religions and the New Europe. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995

78. (with S. Gilliat) ‘The prison chaplaincy. The Church of England and Other Faiths project’, AmBov Quarterly 60, April, 1996: 16-17.

79. (with S. Gilliat) ‘The Church of England and other faiths in a multi-faith society’, Working Papers in Sociology, 21, 1996: 1-53

80. (with S. Gilliat) ‘Prison chaplaincy and “other faiths”’, Newsheet of the National Advisory Council of Boards of Visitors, 2, 1996: 6

81. Scientology, Social Science and the Definition of Religion . Los Angeles: Freedom Publishing, 1996, 4pp.

82. 'Postmodernity, high modernity and new modernity: three concepts in search of religion', pp. 30-47 in K. Flanagan & P. Jupp (eds) Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion. London: Macmillan, 1996.

83. ‘The disenchantment of postmodernity’, New Blackfriars, 78, no. 913, March 1997: 121-28

84. 'Jehovah's Witnesses', ‘Charles Taze Russell’ and ‘Joseph Franklin Rutherford’ in E.A.Livingstone (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press,1997

85. (with W. Ball) ‘Religion, education and city politics: a case study of community mobilisation’, pp. 193-204 in N. Jewson & S. MacGregor (eds) Realising Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Transformation. London: Routledge, 1997

86. ‘Religion and multiculturalism’ Arxius de Sociologia 1 (1) 1997: 31-46

87. ‘The transmission of religion in prison’, Recherches sociologiques 28(3) 1997: 101-12

88. ‘Three paradoxes in the relations between religion and politics in an English city’, Review of Religious Research, 39 (4) 1998: 363-78

89. ‘Ethnic and religious diversity among prisoners: the politics of prison chaplaincy’, Social Compass 45 (2) 1998: 265-77

90. ‘Re-enchantment and modernisation: the recent writings of Alain Touraine’, Papers in Social Theory 1, 1998: 56-73

91. [reprinted in European Journal of Sociology 1 (2) 1998: 194-203]

92. ‘“Cult” controversies in three European countries’, The Journal of Oriental Studies 8, 1998: 174-84 [published in translation by T. Nakano as ‘Yroppa ni okeru karuto rons’ Tyoo Gakujutsu Kenkyo 37 (2) 1998: 178-90]

93. ‘Cults’, ‘Great Britain’ and ‘Religious organization’ in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998

94. ‘Seisaku toshite no shuukyoo kyooiku: eikoku no genjoo kara’ ’ [State policy on religious education: the current situation in England] pp. 150-71 in N. Inoue (ed.) Faith in Education. Tokyo: Shinshokan, 1998

95. ‘Secularisation and social solidarity: a social constructionist view’, pp. 141-58 in R. Laermans, B. Wilson & J. Billiet (eds.) Secularization and Social Integration. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1998

96. ‘The mass media and new religious movements’, pp. 101-19 in B.R. Wilson & J. Cresswell (eds.) New Religious Movements: challenge and response. London: Routledge, 1999

97. ‘The politics of defining religion in secular society: from a taken-for-granted institution to a contested resource’, pp. 23-40 in J.G. Platvoet & A.L. Molendijk (eds.) The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

98. ‘Rational choice theory and prison chaplaincy: the chaplain’s dilemma’, British Journal of Sociology 50 (4) 1999: 671-85

99. (With S. Gilliat-Ray) ‘Prison chaplaincy’ pp. 49-64 in S. Horner & M. Stacey (eds.) Incarceration. Humane and Inhumane: Human Values and Health Care in British Prisons. London: The Nuffield Trust, 1999

100. ‘The management of religious diversity in England and Wales with special reference to prison chaplaincy’, MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies 1 (2) 1999: 10pp. (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001437/143733E.pdf#page=19)

101. ‘Social justice and religion in prison: the case of England and Wales’, Social Justice Research 12 (4) 1999: 315-22

102. (with E. Hedges) ‘Holism, healing and the New Age’, pp.169-87 in S. Sutcliffe & M. Bowman (eds.) Beyond New Age. Exploring Alternative Spirituality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

103. ‘Religious movements and globalization’, pp. 174-84 in R. Cohen & S. Rai (eds.) Global Social Movements. London: Athlone Press, 2000

104. ‘Religion, state and prisons’, Religion - Staat – Gesellschaft 1 (1) 2000: 61-74

105. ‘Conclusion: “When the battle’s lost and won”’ 219-33 pp. in M. Archer & J. Tritter (eds) Rational Choice Theory. London: Routledge, 2000

106. ‘“Start together and finish together.” Shifts in the premises and paradigms underlying the scientific study of religion’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39 (4) 2000: 481-95

107. ‘Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena’, pp. 229-48 in R.K. Fenn (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001

108. ‘Perspectives sociologiques sur les relations entre modernité et globalisation religieuse’, pp. 273-82 in J-P. Bastian, F. Champion & K. Rousselet (eds.) La Globalisation du Religieux. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001

109. ‘Looking backwards and looking forwards’, pp. 131-36 in International Social Survey Program: Religion et Valeurs, problèmes de méthode et comparaison internationale. Observatoire des Religions en Suisse, Cahier no. 1, 2001

110. 'Developments in the sociology of religion' pp. 143-63 in R.G. Burgess & A. Murcott (eds) Developments in Sociology. London: Prentice-Hall, 2001

111. ‘The continuum between “cults” and “normal” religion’. In P. Côté (ed.) Chercheurs de Dieux dans l'Espace Public. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2001: 11-20.

112. ‘The construction and analysis of religion’ Social Compass 48 (3) 2001: 439-441

113. ‘Choosing rationality’ Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 12, 2001: 1-22

114. ‘The tension between an established church and equal opportunities in religion: the case of prison chaplaincy’ in Paula D. Nesbitt (ed.) Religion and Social Policy. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001: 39-53

115. ‘Doing time: space, time, religious diversity and the sacred in prisons’, International Review of Sociology 11(3) 2001: 371-82

116. ‘Religious organizations’ in N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon, 2001: 13127-13132

117. ‘Banal discrimination: equality of respect for beliefs and worldviews in the UK’, in D. Davis and G. Besier (eds) International Perspectives on Freedom and Equality of Religious Belief. Waco, TX.: J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, 2002: 25-41.

118. ‘Sans L’Etat pas de transmission de la religion? Le cas de l’Angleterre’, Les Archives des Sciences sociales des Religions 121, 2003: 57-67

119. ‘The continuum between “cults” and “normal” religion’. In L. Dawson (ed.) Cults and New Religious Movements. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003: 26-31 (reprint of chapter in P. Côté (ed.) Chercheurs de Dieux dans l'Espace Public. Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2001).

120. (With James T. Richardson) ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-10 in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. London: Routledge, 2003

121. ‘Religion: consensus and conflict’ Sociology Review 13 (2) 2003: 8-10

122. ‘Preface’ pp. xi-xiii in Malcolm Gold The Hybridization of an Assembly of God Church. Proselytism, Retention, and Re-Affiliation. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

123. ‘Why Britain doesn’t go to church’. Online article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3475483.stm [first posted 18.2.2004].

124. ‘“Dystopia” and the reaction to new religious movements in France’ in James T. Richardson (ed.) Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2004: 27-40.

125. ‘Social justice and religion in prison: the case of England and Wales’ in James T. Richardson (ed.) Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2004: 237-42.

126. ‘Contemporary configurations of religion’ in O. G. Winsnes (ed.) Contemporary Religion and Church.. Oslo, Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2004: 9-26.

127. ‘Introduction’, Social Compass 51 (2) 2004: 147-54

128. ‘New religious movements and globalization’ in P. Lucas & T. Robbins (eds) New Religious Movements in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2004: 253-63.

129. ‘Religion and postmodernity’, Sociology Review 14 (2) 2004: 2-4

130. ‘La politique du gouvernement travailliste en matière d’enseignement religieux’ in J-P Willaime and S. Mathieu (eds) Des Maîtres et des Dieux. Paris: Belin, 2005: 113-20.

131. ‘Muslims in the prisons of Britain and France’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 13 (3) 2005: 287-97.

132. ‘Ph.D.-afhandling om “Religiøs pluralisme fra et magtperspektiv”’, Religionsvidienskabeligt Tidsskrift 47, 2005: 71-82 (with Lene Maria van der Aa Kühle).

133. ‘Hacia un paradigma de lo Musulmán en Francia y Gran Bretaña’, Revista Migraciones 18, 2005: 7-46 (with D. Joly).

134. ‘Introduction’, Social Compass 52 (2) 2005: 107-13.

135. ‘A minimalist sociology of religion’ pp. 183-97 in James A. Beckford and John Walliss (eds) Theorising Religion: Classic and Contemporary Debates. Ashgate, 2006.

137. ‘The sociology of religion in the Nordic region as seen from the other side of the North Sea’, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 19 (1) 2006: 1-11.

138. ‘Foreword’ in E. Arweck & P. Collins (eds) Reading Religion in Text and Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006: xiii-xvi

139. ‘Religion’ Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (ed Bryan S. Turner), Cambridge University Press, 2006: 505-12.

140. "'Race' relations and discrimination in prison: the case of Muslims in France and Britain." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 4 (2) 2006: 1-30 (with D. Joly).

141. ‘Le communità religiose e lo stato britannico’, Democrazia e diritto, 44 (2) 2006: 124-440 (trad. Elisabetta Horvat).

142. ‘Societal framework in Britain and France: Muslims in prison’, in C. Bertossi (ed.) European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006: 171-92 (with D. Joly).

143. ‘New religious movements’ in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (eds)  Encyclopedia of Globalization.  New York: Routledge, 2007, vol. 3: 1026-28. 

144. ‘Introduction’, Social Compass 54 (2) 2007: 139-44.

145. ‘Prison chaplaincy in England and Wales: from Anglican “brokerage” to a multi-faith approach’ pp. 267-82 in M. Koenig and P. de Guchteneire (eds) Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies. Paris and Aldershot: UNESCO and Ashgate Press, 2007.

146. ‘Religion and Regulation’ (with James T. Richardson). Pp. 396-418 in James A. Beckford and N.J. Demerath III (eds) The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: London: Sage Publications, 2007.

147. ‘Secularism and coercive freedoms’, British Journal of Sociology 59 (1) 2008:41-45.

148. ‘Sectes, controverses et pluralisme : une sociologie sceptique des religions. Entretien avec le sociologue des religions James A. Beckford’ (interview conducted by Véronique Altglas and Laurent Amiotte-Suchet), Ethnographiques No.15, February 2008. Online document at: http://www.ethnographiques.org/2008/Amiotte-Suchet,Altglas.html

149. ‘Religious interaction in a global context’. Pp. 23-42 in A.W. Geertz & M. Warburg (eds) New Religions and Globalization. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008.

150. ‘Foreword’ in H. Godazgar The Impact of Religious Factors on Educational Change in Iran. Islam in Policy and Islam in Practice. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008: iii-vi.

151. ‘Religion and power reconsidered’, pp. 11-19 in V.Oliveira Jorge and J. M. Costa Macedo (eds) Crenças, Religiões e Poderes. Dos Indivíduos às Sociabilidades. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2008.

152. ‘Foreword’, pp. i-vi in Shu-Chuan Chen Contemporary New Age Transformation in Taiwan. A Sociological Study of a New Age Movement. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

153. ‘Religionssociologi og kaos: forsømmelighed og domesticering’ [The sociology of religion and chaos: neglect and domestication], Chaos 49 2008: 29-42.

154. ‘Foreword’, pp. vi-viii in B. Spalek and A. Imtoual (eds) Religion, Spirituality and the Social Sciences. Challenging Marginalisation.. Bristol: Policy Press, 2008.

155. ‘Cults need vigilance, not alarmism’, Church Times, 20 June, 2008.

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