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1. The Future of Singapore

   Population, Society and the Nature of the State

   By Kamaludeen Nasir, Bryan S. Turner

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

   Edited by Bryan Turner

   The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a strong and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner, one of the world’s leading sociologists of religion, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
3. Citizenship between Past and Future

   Edited by Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, Bryan S. Turner

   Citizenship between Past and Future brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field of citizenship studies to assess, critically and contextually, the ongoing significance of citizenship as an object of study. The authors reflect on the major issues and debates that have emerged in...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Legal Pluralism and Shari’a Law

   Edited by Adam Possamai, James T. Richardson, Bryan Turner

   Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Shari‘a, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship,...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Interpreting Human Rights

   Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

   Edited by Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

   Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

   The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Contested Citizenship in East Asia

   Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

   Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Regulating Bodies

   Essays in Medical Sociology

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously....

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

    By Robert Holton, Bryan Turner

    First published in 1989, this reissue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tennets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate,...

    Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge