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	Sociology of Religion: Social Theory and Religion
		Beckford's Religion and Advanced Industrial Society (1989) was a masterful, yet incomplete account of sociologists' various understandings of religion's place in the late-modern world.
		Beckford's text is full of such intriguing possibilities--a refreshing change from the sterility into which much current discussion has sunk.
		Beckford covers so much ground, and has so many keen insights on such diverse matters, that one sometimes loses sight of the forest for the trees.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_65/ai_n8707616 (1221 words)

	Untitled
		Beckford sees the fundamental argument in all this work being a degree of "congruence or affinity" between the movement and features of its host culture.
		Beckford attributes this defect to Robbins and Anthony's theoretical commitment to "voluntaristic and functionalist" assumptions about their subjects, which includes a reified social structure.
		Beckford suggests that the distinction between the material and spiritual is being redrawn.
	www.mille.org /scholarship/bibliography/bibliosubjects/072.html (1613 words)

	Cults & New Religious Movements: A Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beckford, James A. The trumpet of prophecy: a sociological study of Jehovah's Witnesses.
		Beckford, James A. Cult controversies: the societal response to new religious movements.
		Beckford, James A. The sociology of religion 1945-1989.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/gthursby/rel/nanninga.htm (7965 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Conn. / 2 New Yorkers accused in marijuana haul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James Beckford, 45, and Matthew Alton, 63, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., were charged with possession of more than 1 kilogram of marijuana and possession with intent to sell.
		Beckford and Alton were arrested without incident after they got back on the highway in West Haven and their car was forced to slow due to construction, state police said.
		Beckford and Alton were held on $1 million bond at the state police barracks in Bridgeport and were scheduled to arraigned in Milford Superior Court on Tuesday.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2005/04/18/2_new_yorkers_accused_in_marijuana_haul?mode=PF (247 words)

	JAAA - Jamaican Amateur Athletic Assosiation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James was an outstanding junior long and triple jumper, and he is still 4th on the junior all-time list for the latter event, and contested both events at the 1995 World Championships.
		However, by the age of 21, James started to become concerned about the potential for injury in the triple jump and concentrated on the long jump for the 1996 Olympic Games.
		Among the many things James says she gave him, was confidence which extends to an analysis of his opponents.
	www.jaaa.org.jm /athletes/athlete.jsp?id=82 (243 words)

	Rich Poll Leaving CRI
		James Beckford is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
		James A. Beckford and Eileen Barker of the London School of Economics are on the Board of Governors of INFORM, Information Netork Focus on New Religious Movements.
		Beckford is the Vice Chair of INFORM and Eileen Barker is the Chair and also on the Board of the foremost cult-apology organization, CESNUR, the Center for Studies of New Religions, directed by Massimo Introvigne and fellow vampire, J. Gordon Melton.
	watch.pair.com /cult-cri-poll.html (1585 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Beckford on a mission - Monday \| September 1, 2003
		Considered an introvert by some, Beckford was anything but that at the ninth IAAF World Athletics Championships.
		In addition to taking the silver in the long jump, he reached the final of the triple jump and was a member of the sprint relay team.
		JAMES BECKFORD: I relocated to Germany early this year and I have been getting some new training from my coach, former German long jumper Konstantin Krause.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20030901/sports/sports3.html (746 words)

	Beckford, James “Religious organizations: A survey of some recent publications” , 1984 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beckford, James “Religious organizations: A survey of some recent publications”, 1984
		Beckford, James “Religious organizations: A survey of some recent publications”
		In his paper, Beckford summed up the major trends and tendencies in recent sociological writings on religious organization.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Dorm/2200/11.html (408 words)

	BECKFORD-GGIII.html
		Describes "William Beckford: An Eye for the Magnificent," an exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery, England.
		, Beckford excels in the presentation of "un imaginaire de la perversion" [perverse imagination] and "un plaisir dans le démoniaque" [a pleasure in the demoniac].
		William Beckford’s "flamboyant abbey" is the main feature of an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
	users.stargate.net /~ffrank/BECKFORD-GGIII.htm (1328 words)

	2002 AANLP Participant - James Beckford-Saunders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James Beckford Saunders recently joined the Mental Illness Fellowship as the General Manager - Development.
		James has eleven years marketing experience in the UK at Toshiba, the MS Society, Comic Relief and the Cancer Research Campaign, and Oxfam Community Aid Abroad in Australia.
		James recently completed an MBA, having graduated with honours from Oxford Brookes University in 1988 and completed post graduate diplomas in management and marketing.
	www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au /cpp/leadership/2002part/jamesb.html (126 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - So close for Beckford - Friday \| August 27, 2004
		Jamaica's James Beckford competes in the men's long jump final yesterday.
		James Beckford tied his season-best 8.31 metres but still had to settle for fourth in the long jump final.
		Beckford fouled his fifth attempt and then could only get up to 8.12m on his sixth and final.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040827/sports/sports1.html (499 words)

	Asialink Leadership Program Melbourne projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The key objective of James' project was to determine the gaps in services provided by the Mental Illness Fellowship (MI Fellowship) for people with a mental illness, their friends and families from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB).
		James was able to identify a number of gaps in the delivery of services to NESB clients including internal and external cultural issues such as language and cultural sensitivities.
		In the future James will be helping to develop the MI Fellowship's Access and Equity Plan with the aim of incorporating cross-cultural dimensions into the organisation, ensuring people from NESB have adequate access to the Fellowship's programs and services.
	www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au /cpp/leadership/melbourneprojects.html (1248 words)

	// Athletics Links // A chat with James Beckford
		Beckford jumped 8.29m in the final, good enough for a silver medal, behind Carl Lewis' 8.50m jump.
		Beckford improved his best yet again in 1997 to 8.62m, but was beaten to the top spot in the world rankings by 1cm, as Ivan Pedroso had jumped 8.63m the same year.
		As for now, however, James is still very much at the forefront of world class long jumping (and, indeed, triple jumping), and looks forward to a great season in 2003.
	www.athleticslinks.com /art/beckford.php (868 words)

	Wignall, Beckford, Clarke win in Germany - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		ERFURT, Germany (CMC) - Jamaicans Maurice Wignall, James Beckford and Davian Clarke logged fine victories at the 11th TEAG indoor meeting on Friday night.
		Clarke and fourth-place finishers at last year's Athens Olympics, Wignall and Beckford, were among the stars of the meet that also saw Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak register an easy win in the 800 metres.
		Beckford left it late for his winning effort in the men's long jump, coming up with his top jump of 8.01 metres in his fifth try to defeat Germans Andreas Pohle (7.73 metres) and Nils Winter (7.70m).
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20050206T010000-0500_74584_OBS_WIGNALL__BECKFORD__CLARKE_WIN_IN_GERMANY.asp (276 words)

	McFarlane grabs 400 hurdles silver - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		McFarlane, the oldest starter in the field at 32, rallied from a struggling position at the halfway point and ran past American James Carter down the stretch to secure the silver medal.
		Jamaica's James Beckford missed a medal in the long jump final.
		The Jamaican officials were lodging a protest over Beckford's finish, claiming that Martinez's 8.32-metre jump that edged Beckford was a foul jump.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20040826T230000-0500_65275_OBS_MCFARLANE_GRABS_____HURDLES_SILVER.asp (633 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses and Ethnicity
		Witness scholar M. James Penton acknowledged that the Watchtower Society "has emphasized the value of ethnic and racial tolerance among its adherents to a greater degree than is the case with most other religious organizations."
		He observed, for example, that male Witnesses tended "to wear rather sober suits of traditional design, white shirts and dark ties for congregational meetings," to carry their literature in leather briefcases, and "adopt an air of business-like purposiveness" in meetings and field- ministry.
		James A. Beckford, The Trumpet of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975), p.
	www.unc.edu /~elliott/aar_dc.html (5327 words)

	ABC Sport - Athletics - Galleries
		PARIS - AUGUST 29: James Beckford of Jamaica in action during the men's long jump final at the 9th IAAF World Athletics Championship at the Stade de France on August 29, 2003 in Paris.
		Beckford finished second to win the silver medal.
		This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
	www.abc.net.au /athletics/galleries/worlds2003/day7/pages/04_beckford.htm (105 words)

	Online Texts about Cults and New Religions (100+ articles)
		Beckford, James A. The mass media and New Religious Movements.
		Richardson, James T. "Brainwashing" claims and minority religions outside the United States: Cultural diffusion of a questionable concept in the legal arena.
		Richardson, James T. Testimony offered to the Maryland Task Force to study the effects of cult activities on public senior higher institutions.
	www.skepsis.nl /nrm.html (1566 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Linz, Austria — Top sprinter Aziz Zakari and the World championships silver medal winning long jumper James Beckford have been lined-up to compete at the 17th Intersport Gugl-Meeting - IAAF Grand Prix.
		Jamaican James Beckford, who has a summer season’s best of 8.23 (3 July) and a personal best of 8.62 (1997) goes in the men's Long Jump, an event at which he is currently ranked number 5 in the IAAF World Rankings.
		In the opening meeting of the Intersport Arena he managed 8.11m and “on 2 August I want to exceed this length in the open-air stadium,” confirmed Beckford.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=26097,printer.html (183 words)

	iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ
		Only ex-members could rival the privileged position of a few investigative journalists; but most ex-members were understandably reluctant to talk freely about their former commitments.
		Elsewhere I have summarised the tendency for the mass media to characterise or caricature the movements as threatening, strange, exploitative, oppressive and provocative (Beckford, 1985).
		It should also be recognised that some journalists have exposed the criminal activities of a few cult leaders and have therefore been helpful in checking abuses (Mitchell, Mitchell and Ofshe, 1980).
	www.iskcon.com /icj/2_2/2_2beckford.html (4239 words)

	691affiliation
		Beckford, James A. "Accounting for Conversion." BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 29(2) (1978): 249-62.
		Richardson, James T. "The Active vs Passive Convert: Paradigm Conflict in Conversion/Recruitment Research." JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION 24 (1985): 163-179.
		Richardson, James T. "Studies of Conversion: Secularization or Re-enchantment." THE SACRED IN A SECULAR AGE: TOWARD REVISION IN THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~dbromley/691affiliation.htm (378 words)

	C:\DATA\ssbus92.htm
		4.5) The Council has appointed James Beckford and a committee which he will recruit to continue work on plans for an international directory of scholars in the social scientific study of religion.
		A separate committee is working on plans for an up-to-date membership list which will be made available to editors, committee chairs, and Council members to assist them in their work for the Society.
		Barker singled out James Davidson, retiring executive secretary, for special thanks for the enormous amount of work which he has done for us during his term of office.
	rra.hartsem.edu /sssr/SSSR/BUSINESS/92.html (1100 words)

	BECKFORD Surname Page
		Murray Andrews BECKFORD - Married 26 April 1935 - Edna Nancy MacGregor
		James Murray BECKFORD - Married 1 Mar 1905 - Lillian Davidson ANDREWS
		William BECKFORD - Married 19 August 1829 - Lucinda F. Born 15 September 1804 Born 12 June 1804
	www.geocities.com /eureka/gold/4271/beckford.html (274 words)

	Rip Squeak Y Sus Amigo by Susan Yost-Filgate, ISBN 096724224X And Social Theory and Religion by James A. Beckford, ISBN ...
		Social Theory and Religion by James A. Beckford, ISBN 0521774314
		James Beckford reviews the current state of social scientific knowledge about religion.
		Beckford reveals the importance of these boundaries by referring to studies of secularization, religious diversity, globalization, religious movements and self-identity.
	www.pastaconcerto.com /rip.htm (205 words)

	Social Justice and New Religious Movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It will be remembered as a seminal scholarly collection of social justice studies on how justice is violated by anti-cult campaigns, particularly (but not exclusively) in France.
		Articles on anti-cult activities in Canada, Australia, Hungary, Russia, Germany and Belgium are also included, together with a study by James Beckford on religious discrimination in British jails.
		The French section includes an article by Massimo Introvigne on the anti-cult campaign against the Aumist Religion of the Mandarom; an analysis of the trials of Tabitha's Place (the French branch of the Messianic Communities), and a very important article by Dick Anthony criticizing the career and theories of French anti-cult psychiatrist Jean-Marie Abgrall.
	www.cesnur.org /recens/SJR.htm (279 words)

	Cayman Net News: Sandie Richards
		James Beckford is the only Jamaican athlete to win field with silvers in the Long Jump at the 1996 Olympics and 1995 World Championships.
		He also made the finals at the World Championships in 1997 and 2001 and won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games in 2001.
		Disclaimer: Letters, articles, and cartoons from contributors do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Cayman Net News, nor can Cayman Net News and/or Cayman Net Ltd be held accountable for these views.
	www.caymannetnews.com /2005/11/958/jamaican/sports.shtml (280 words)

	Book Review: Religion in Prison. Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society by James Beckford and Sophie Gilliat: UNESCO SHS
		Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society by James Beckford and Sophie Gilliat: UNESCO SHS
		James Beckford is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and, at the time of the research, Sophie Gilliat was Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, also at Warwick University.
		Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society by James Beckford and Sophie Gilliat.
	portal.unesco.org /shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2763&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (81 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses
		Russell did not choose a successor, instead Rutherford was elected in spite of opposition (Beckford, p.23).
		The principal self-defining characteristics of Jehovah's Witnesses, according to Beckford, are: learning the official doctrines, showing willingness to proselytize actively, participating in all congregational meetings, and being baptized into the Watch Tower faith (Beckford, p.70).
		Thanks to James Long, Webmaster of Jehovah's Witnesses United for assistance in correcting an earlier statement regarding salvation).
	www.watchtowerinformationservice.org /jws.htm (4110 words)

	intotheblue
		But the motor-mouth Bryce and the unreliable Amanda team up with local drug dealer Primo (Tyson Beckford, international male model) and try to fence the drugs.
		The only thing is that he works for a dangerous drug kingpin Reyes (James Frain), who tells the fab four if they don't bring him his drugs in 12 hours he will kill them.
		In the meantime the fab four have discovered a real sunken treasure, a pirate ship called the Zephyr that sunk in 1861.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/intotheblue.htm (515 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Johnson loses, Beckford wins at Rio Grand Prix - Sunday April 25, 1999 03:31 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Posted: Sunday April 25, 1999 03:31 PM The emotions of the home crowd fueled Claudinei da Silva to victory.
		At the Celio de Barros track by the Maracana soccer stadium, Zambia's Samuel Matete won the 400 in 48.97.
		Promising Jamaican James Beckford won the long jump with a leap of 8.4 meters (27 feet, 6 3/4 inches).
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/04/25/rio_grandprix (363 words)

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