Auteur: J. Beckford

JAMES A. BECKFORD is Fellow of the British Academy and former Vice-President of the International Sociological Association, UK. He has written six books and has edited a further five volumes. His research has focused on religious minorities, « cult » controversies, religion in prison and social theories relating to religion. DANIÈLE JOLY is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, Warwick University, UK. She obtained a Licence ès Lettres, University of Nanterre, France, a Master »s Degree in Industrial Relations, University of La Sorbonne, France, and a Ph D from the University of Aston, UK. She has published on Muslim populations in Britain, ethnic relations and refugees in Europe. FARHAD KHOSROKHAVAR is Professor in the Centre d »Analyse et d »Intervention Sociologiques at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France. He teaches on Muslims in Europe and postrevolutionary Iranian society. His latest books are Suicide Bombers: The New Martyrs of Allah; L »Instance Du Sacré, and L »Islam Des Jeunes.