ABSTRACT
From Religion in a Secular Society: A Sociological Comment by Bryan Wilson, pp. 127-149. Copyright 1969, Bryan Wilson. Reprinted by permission of C. A. Watts & Company Ltd. Bryan Wilson is a Fellow of All Souls and Reader in Sociology at Oxford University. Among the subjects in which he is primarily interested are education, youth culture and the influence of the mass media, and religion. In addition to Religion in Secular Society, he is the author of Sects and Society and the editor of Patterns of Sectarianism.
