Bryan R. Wilson

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). Provided by Wikipedia