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  • The Body and Society

    Explorations in Social Theory

    by Bryan S Turner ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner′s work on the body needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body."- Dr Robert Meadows, Surrey University"Remains the foundational text for courses in the sociology of the body, replete with insights and a depth of analysis that has ... Read more

    $123.19 CAD

  • Regimes of Happiness

    Comparative and Historical Studies

    Edited by Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen, Bryan S Turner ...
    ‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the ‘good life’.Presented in two parts, ‘Regimes of Happiness’ provides a historical view of the way in which ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medical Power and Social Knowledge

    by Bryan S Turner ...
    The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body and on the relationship between health and risk in contemporary societies.Bryan S Turner considers the ... Read more

    $141.59 CAD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Citizenship

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner’s publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.The collection begins with a newly written overview of the rise of social citizenship (with particular reference to the UK and the US from 1945 to the 1980s) which charts the experiences of the ‘Baby Boomers’ ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Shari’a

    Case Studies from Around the World

    Edited by Adam Possamai, James T. Richardson, Bryan S. Turner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage.This text provides a sociological ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Vulnerability and Human Rights

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Series series Essays on Human Rights
    The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Condition of Democracy

    Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts

    Edited by Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf, Bryan S. Turner ...
    Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies, such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial, postcolonial and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Condition of Democracy

    Volume 2: Contesting Citizenship

    Edited by Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf, Bryan S. Turner ...
    Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries. Democracy’s crucial relationships, between state and citizenry as well as amongst citizens, are rearranged and re-ordered ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Condition of Democracy

    Volume 1: Neoliberal Politics and Sociological Perspectives

    Edited by Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf, Bryan S. Turner ...
    Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and challenging ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World

    Edited by Adam Possamai, James T Richardson, Bryan S. Turner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Tunisia.The Sociology of Shari’a provides a global analysis of these important legal transformations and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

    by Professor Bryan S Turner ...
    It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the undermining of belief and commitment as Western cultures became industrial and urban. However, in the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD