Bryan R. Wilson
Bryan R. Wilson | |
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| Born | 25 June 1926 Leeds, England |
| Died | 9 October 2004 (aged 78) Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, England |
| Title | Reader in Sociology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of London London School of Economics |
| Thesis | Social aspects of religious sects: A study of some contemporary groups in Great Britain with special reference to a Midland city (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Gunn MacRae |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Institutions | |
Bryan Ronald Wilson (25 June 1926 – 9 October 2004) was a British sociologist. He was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (1971–75). He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963.
Wilson was the author of several influential books on new religious movements, including Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science, and Christadelphians (1961), Magic and the Millennium (1973), and The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism (1990).