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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Barker and sociologist of religion James A. Beckford both classified Landmark and its predecessor organization est as a "new religious movement" (NRM). Some...

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...

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

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

Retrieved 5 August 2023. Beckford, James A.; Richardson, James T. (2003), "Introduction", in Beckford, James A.; Richardson, James T. (eds.), Challenging...

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...

"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...

July 2011. Archived from the original (audio) on 1 February 2015. James A. Beckford; James T. Richardson (2 September 2003). Challenging Religion. Routledge...

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

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...

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

James A. Beckford ISBN 0-8039-8591-6, pages 228–231, 233 Sandweiss, Samuel H "Spirit and the Mind" (1985) ISBN 81-7208-056-5 Thomas, Joy "Life is a Game...

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...