• 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...
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  • James Beckford may refer to: James Beckford (athlete) (born 1975), Jamaican long jumper James A. Beckford (1942–2022), British sociologist of religion...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Beckford (born 1999), Canadian soccer player James Beckford (athlete) (born 1975), Jamaican long jump athlete in the 1996 Olympics James A. Beckford Jason...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 102–113. Saliba, John A., Understanding New Religious...
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    in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 102–113....
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    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...
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    Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Barker and sociologist of religion James A. Beckford both classified Landmark and its predecessor organization est as a "new religious movement" (NRM). Some...
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    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...
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  • Robert Beckford (born 1965) is a British academic theologian and currently Professor of Climate and Social Justice at the University of Winchester, and...
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  • succession, often with hundreds baptised at large conventions. Sociologist James A. Beckford reported two significant distinguishing features of the conversion...
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  • Retrieved 5 August 2023. Beckford, James A.; Richardson, James T. (2003), "Introduction", in Beckford, James A.; Richardson, James T. (eds.), Challenging...
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    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...
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    "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...
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    July 2011. Archived from the original (audio) on 1 February 2015. James A. Beckford; James T. Richardson (2 September 2003). Challenging Religion. Routledge...
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  • "New focus on man with a strange battle", Southall Gazette, 8 April 1977. Beckford, Cult Controversies, 228. James A. Beckford. "'Brainwashing' and 'Deprogramming'...
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  • 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...
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    in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson, eds. (London; New York: Routledge, 2003), 102–113...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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