James Arthur Beckford FBA (1 December 1942 – 10 May 2022) was a British sociologist of religion. He was professor emeritus of sociology at the University...

James Beckford may refer to: James Beckford (athlete) (born 1975), Jamaican long jumper James A. Beckford (1942–2022), British sociologist of religion...

richest commoner. The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton, he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in...

Tyson Beckford (born December 19, 1970) is a Jamaican-American model and actor best known as a Ralph Lauren Polo model. He was also the host of both seasons...

James Beckford (born 9 January 1975 in Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican track and field athlete competing in the long jump. He represented Jamaica at...

Beckford (born 1999), Canadian soccer player James Beckford (athlete) (born 1975), Jamaican long jump athlete in the 1996 Olympics James A. Beckford Jason...

James Beckford Wildman (19 October 1789 – 25 May 1867) was an English landowner and Tory politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester...

The Societal Response to New Religious Movements is a 1985 nonfiction book by James A. Beckford on the reaction to new religious movements (cults) in...

of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 102–113. Saliba, John A., Understanding New Religious...

Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was built near the site of the Palladian house, later...

households in the United States earning less than 30,000 dollars a year. Sociologist James A. Beckford, in his 1975 study of Jehovah's Witnesses, classified the...

people like Franklin Littell, Stuart A. Wright, David G. Bromley, Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson. Some of the essays...

century. Peter Beckford of Maidenhead Peter Beckford (1643 – 3 April 1710) also had brothers Sir Thomas Beckford (1618–1685) and Richard Beckford His son Peter...

in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 102–113....

San Diego. Beckford, James A. (2003). Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77431-4. Beckford, James A.; Demerath...

Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset...

Sir William Beckford (December 1709 – 21 June 1770) was a Jamaican-born planter and Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and...

ISBN 978-0-670-28342-2. Beckford, James (1989). Religion and Advanced Industrial Society. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-04-301228-4. Berger, Helen, A. (1999). A Community...

(2008). The Centrality of Religion in Social Life: Essays in Honour of James A. Beckford. Ashgate Publishing. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-7546-6515-1. "UK Muslim leader...

succession, often with hundreds baptised at large conventions. Sociologist James A. Beckford reported two significant distinguishing features of the conversion...

starred in Little Bill as the voice of Bobby, briefly replacing Devon Malik Beckford in 2000, and played himself (or an eponymous character, "Tyler") on the...

International Publishing Group, p. 351, ISBN 978-0-8264-5959-6 James A. Beckford and James T. (Jim) Richardson, eds., Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour...

Ewart Beckford OD (21 September 1942 – 17 February 2021), known by the stage name U-Roy, was a Jamaican vocalist and pioneer of toasting. U-Roy was known...

Loutherbourg mounted a spectacle at a party in the Egyptian Hall at Fonthill for William Beckford, promising (according to Beckford) to "present a mysterious something...

"part of the power structure rather than subject to it". Sociologist James A. Beckford, however, states that the Watch Tower Society is intolerant of dissent...

Beckford, James A. (ed.). The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-1195-5. James A. Beckford:...

and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious Movements", in James A. Beckford and N. Jay Demerath III, editors, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology...

"New focus on man with a strange battle", Southall Gazette, 8 April 1977. Beckford, Cult Controversies, 228. James A. Beckford. "'Brainwashing' and 'Deprogramming'...

Robert Beckford (born 1965) is a British academic theologian and currently Professor of Climate and Social Justice at the University of Winchester, and...

in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson, eds. (London; New York: Routledge, 2003), 102–113...