Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University, Honorary Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Citizenship at Potsdam University Germany, Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Fellow of the Edward Cadbury Centre for Religion in Public Life, University of Birmingham, England and Distinguished Fellow of the PM Glynn Institute at ACU. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Classical Sociology. He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 2009 and received the Max Planck Award in social science in 2016.

His publications include Religion and Modern Society CUP 2011, The Religious and the Political CUP 2013,the Blackwell Wiley Encyclopedia for Social Theory (2018) and a 3 volume edition with Mackert and Wolf with Routledge on The Condition of Democracy (2021). He is the Chief Investigator of the ARC grant on The Far Right in Australia (2021-2024).

• Asad, Talal. “The idea of an anthropology of Islam.” Qui parle 17, no. 2 (2009): 1-30.  

• Asad, Talal, Jonathan Boyarin, Fadil Nadia, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara. “Portrait: Talal Asad.” Religion and Society 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-29. 

• Bamyeh, Mohammed A. Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion, 240. Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Hallaq, Wael B. Restating Orientalism: a critique of modern knowledge, 380. Columbia University Press, 2018.

• Peel, John David Yeadon. “Understanding alien belief-systems.” The British Journal of Sociology 20, no. 1 (1969): 69-84.

• Roose, Joshua M., and Bryan S. Turner. “Islamophobia, science and the advocacy concept.” Society 56, no. 3 (2019): 210-221.