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Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian Sociologist (dual citizenship). He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998-2005).

Professor Turner wrote his first book Weber and Islam in 1974 and has since established an international reputation for his work on religion, Max Weber and comparative sociology. He is one of the world’s leading sociologists of religion; he has also devoted significant attention to sociological theory, the study of human rights, and the sociology of the body. He is currently the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Committee on Religion at The City University of New York, and Professor of Social and Political Thought and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney. He is also faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, Research Associate, GEMASS at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and Member of the American Sociological Research Association.

Turner's research interests include globalisation and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies.

He is the founding editor of the journals: Body & Society (with Mike Featherstone), Citizenship Studies, and Journal of Classical Sociology (with John O'Neill). He is also an editorial member of numerous journals including: British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Contemporary Islam and Journal of Human Rights.

He is the editor of two book series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology and Tracts for Our Times – for Anthem Press; and with Gabriele Marranci he edits Muslims in Global Societies for Springer.