Professor Steve BRUCE

Professor Steve BRUCE The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science Chair of Sociology work +44 (0)1224 272761 pref s.bruce@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/people/details.php?id=s.bruce

Chair of Sociology

BA, PhD, FBA, FRSE

Personal Details Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272761 Email: s.bruce@abdn.ac.uk Personal website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/people/details.php?id=s.bruce

Biography

Steve Bruce has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. He was born in Edinburgh in 1954 and schooled at the Queen Victoria School Dunblane, Perthshire. He studied sociology and religious studies at the University of Stirling (MA 1976; PhD 1980) and taught at The Queen’s University, Belfast, from 1978 to 1991.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.

He has written extensively on the nature of religion in the modern world and on the links between religion and politics.

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Bruce, S. (2012). 'Studying religious change through replication: some methodological issues'. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, vol 24, no. 2, pp. 1-17.
• Bruce, S. (2012). 'Patronage and secularization: social obligation and church support'. British Journal of Sociology, vol 63, no. 3, pp. 533-552.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01423.x
• Bruce, S. (in press). 'Christian parties in Modern Britain'. Politics and Religion.
• Bruce, S. (in press). 'A sociology classic revisited: religion in Gosforth'. Journal of Rural Theology.
• Bruce, S. (2011). 'Secularization, church and popular religion'. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol 62, no. 3, pp. 543-561.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0022046909992715
• Bruce, S. (2011). 'Defining religion: a practical response'. International Review of Sociology, vol 21, no. 1, pp. 105-118.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2011.544190
• Bruce, S. (2011). 'A sociology classic revisited: religion in Banbury'. The Sociological Review, vol 59, no. 2, pp. 201-222.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02003.x
• Bruce, S. (2011). 'Methodism and miners in County Durham 1881-1991'. Northern History, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 337-355.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1179/007817211X13061632130674
• Bruce, S. & Voas, D. (2010). 'Vicarious religion: an examination and critique'. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 243-259.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13537901003750936
• Bruce, S. & Glendinning, A. (2010). 'When was secularization?: Dating the decline of the British churches and locating its cause'. British Journal of Sociology, vol 61, no. 1, pp. 107-126.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01304.x
• Bruce, S. (2010). 'Religion in Rural Wales: four restudies'. Contemporary Wales, vol 23, no. 1, pp. 219-239.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'śWe don’t do God”: the long divorce of religion and national identity in Britain 1832-2008'. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol 16, no. 2, pp. 117.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'Religion in the Northern Ireland conflict’'. Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi, vol 26, no. 2, pp. 301-323.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'The importance of social science in the study of religion'. Fieldwork in Religion, vol 4, pp. 8-29.
• Bruce, S. & Voas, D. (2007). 'Religious Toleration and Organisational Typologies'. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 22, no. 1, pp. 1-17.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/13537900601114388
• Glendinning, A. & Bruce, S. (2006). 'New ways of believing or belonging: is religion giving way to spirituality?'. British Journal of Sociology, vol 57, no. 3, pp. 399-414.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00117.x
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'Les limites du marchĂ©s religieux'. Social Compass, vol 53, no. 1, pp. 33-48.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0037768606061576
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'Secularization and the impotence of individualized religion'. The Hedgehog Review, vol Spring and summer, pp. 35-45.
• Bruce, S. (2005). 'Religion and violence: what can sociology offer?'. Numen, vol 52, no. 1, pp. 5-28.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1163/1568527053083412
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'Did protestantism create democracy?'. Democratization, vol 11, no. 4, pp. 3-20.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/1351034042000234503
• Bruce, S. & Voas, D. (2004). 'The 2001 Census and Christian identification in Britain'. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 19, no. 1, pp. 23-28.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'A Response to Davie'. Conversations in Religion and Theology.
• Bruce, S. (2003). 'Evangelicalism: where the US goes will Europe follow?'. Cahier n. 2 de L’Observatoire des religions en Suisse, vol Actes du Colloque de Lausanne, pp. 64-73.
• Bruce, S. (2002). 'Praying alone? Church-going in Britain and the Putnam thesis'. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 17, no. 3, pp. 317-328.
• Bruce, S. (2002). 'God and shopping'. Sociology Review, vol 12, no. 2, pp. 14-16.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Terrorists and politics: Terrorism and Political Violence'. Terrorism and Political Violence, vol 13, pp. 27-48.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Protestant politics in the UK and USA'. Ă–sterreichische Zeitschrift fĂĽr Soziologie, vol 26, pp. 41-60.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Loyalist assassinations and police collusion in Northern Ireland: an extended critique of Sean McPhilemy’s The Committee'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, vol 23, pp. 61-80.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'The sociology of anti-Catholicism'. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol 89, pp. 205-214.

Editorials

• Bruce, S. & Voas, D. (2004). 'The resilience of the nation-state: Religion and polities in the modern era'. Sociology, vol 38, no. 5, pp. 1025-1034.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0038038504047184

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Bruce, S. (2011). 'Religion and rational choice'. RM McCleary (ed.), in: The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion. Oxford Handbooks in Economics, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA.
• Bruce, S. (2010). 'Secularization'. BS Turner (ed.), in: The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Blackwell Companions to Sociology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 125-140.
• Bruce, S. (2010). 'Secularization in the UK and USA'. C Brown & M Snape (eds), in: Secularization in the Christian World. Ashgate, Farnham, United Kingdom, pp. 205-218.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'Secularisation and politics'. J Haynes (ed.), in: The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom, pp. 145-158.
• Bruce, S. (2007). 'God, Gaelic and needlepoint: Religion as a social accomplishment'. D Pollack & DVA Olson (eds), in: The Role of Religion in Modern Societies. Routledge Advances in Sociology, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 49-62.
• Voas, D. & Bruce, S. (2007). 'The spiritual revolution: Another false dawn for the sacred'. K Flanagan & PC Jupp (eds), in: A Sociology of Spirituality. Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association With the Bsa Sociology of Religion Study Group, Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 43-62.
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'Secularization'. R Segal (ed.), in: The Blackwell Companion to Study of Religion. Blackwell Companions to Religion, Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 413-429.
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'What the secularization paradigm really entails'. M Franzmann, C Gartner & N Kock (eds), in: Religiösitat in der säkularierten Welt. Leske + Budrich, pp. 49-62.
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'Science and religion'. G Ritzer (ed.), in: The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology. Blackwell.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'The social organization of diffuse beliefs and the future of cultic religion'. O'Leary & A Crockett (eds), in: Patterns and Processes of Religious Change in Modern Industrial Societies: Europe and the United States. Studies in Religion and Society, Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, United Kingdom, pp. 231-254.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'The strange death of Protestant Britain'. EP Kaufmann (ed.), in: Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities. Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 116-135.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'Religion and violence: Paisley and Ulster evangelicals'. D Kennedy (ed.), in: Nothing but Trouble? Religion and the Irish Problem. The Irish Association, pp. 30-44.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'Sociology of conversion: the last twenty-five years'. M Gossman (ed.), in: Conversion in Modern Times. Editions Peeters, pp. 1-12.
• Bruce, S. (2004). 'Fondamentalisme, conversion et sĂ©cularisation'. S Fath (ed.), in: Le Protestantisme ÉvangĂ©lique: Un Christianisme de Conversion. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses (BEHE), no. 121, Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 259-269.
• Bruce, S. (2003). 'The poverty of economism or the social limits on maximising'. TG Jelen (ed.), in: Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies: Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism. Rowan-Littlefield, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 167-185.
• Bruce, S. (2003). 'The demise of Christianity in Britain'. G Davie, P Heelas & L Woodhead (eds), in: Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures. Religion & theloogy in interdisciplinary perspective, Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 53-63.
• Bruce, S. (2003). 'Religion'. R Singh (ed.), in: Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 410-427.
• Bruce, S. & Glendinning, A. (2003). 'Religious beliefs and differences'. C Bromley, J Curtice, K Hinds & A Park (eds), in: Devolution: Scottish Answers to Scottish Questions. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 86-115.
• Bruce, S. (2002). 'The problems of a liberal religion: a sociologist’s view'. MD Chapman (ed.), in: The Future of Liberal Theology. Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom, pp. 221-241.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Unionism among the paramilitaries'. R Hanna (ed.), in: The Union: Essays on Ireland and the British Connection. Colourpoint Books, pp. 72-81.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Fundamentalism: the new Christian right'. NJ Smelser, JD Wright & PB Baltes (eds), in: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, Volume 20. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kindgom, pp. 5856-5858.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/04053-5
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'The curious case of the unnecessary recantation: Berger and secularization'. L Woodhead, P Heelas & D Martin (eds), in: Berger and the Study of Religion. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 87-100.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'In praise of the history man'. A Walker & M Percy (eds), in: Restoring the Image: essays on religion and society in honour of David Martin. Lincoln Studies in Religion & Society, Continuum, Sheffield, United Kingdom, pp. 12-21.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Religious culture in contemporary Britain'. D Morley & K Robins (eds), in: British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 195-206.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Religion, the global and the post-modern'. M Haralambos (ed.), in: Developments in Sociology, v. 17: An Annual Review. Developments in Sociology, Causeway Press, Harlow, United Kingdom, pp. 1-17.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'The New Age and Secularization'. S Sutcliffe & M Bowman (eds), in: Beyond the New Age: Alternative Spirituality in Britain. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 200-220.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Comparing Scotland and Northern Ireland'. T Devine (ed.), in: Scotland’s Shame? : Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland. Mainstream (Edinburgh, Scotland), pp. 135-142.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Liberalism cannot sustain itself'. L Woodhead & P Heelas (eds), in: Religion in Modern Times: an Interpretive Anthology. Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United kingdom, pp. 101.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Insignificance'. L Woodhead & P Heelas (eds), in: Religion in Modern Times: an Interpretive Anthology. Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 141.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'The appeal of prosperity Christianity'. L Woodhead & P Heelas (eds), in: Religion in Modern Times: an Interpretive Anthology. Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 194.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Modernization and fundamental egalitarianism'. L Woodhead & P Heelas (eds), in: Religion in Modern Times: an Interpretive Anthology. Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 423.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'Religion, cultural defence, and transition'. L Woodhead & P Heelas (eds), in: Religion in Modern Times: an Interpretive Anthology. Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 456.
• Bruce, S. (2000). 'The social process of secularization'. R Fenn (ed.), in: The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion. Blackwell Companions to Religion, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 249-263.

Books and Reports

Books

• Trzebiatowska, M. & Bruce, S. (2012). 'Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?'. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Bruce, S. (2012). 'Politics and Religion in the UK'. Routledge.
• Bruce, S. (2011). 'Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory'. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland'. 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Bruce, S. (2009). 'Paisley: religion and politics in Northern Ireland'. Second edn, Oxford University Press.
• Bruce, S. (2008). 'Fundamentalism'. Key Concepts, 2nd edn, Polity Press.
• Bruce, S. (2007). 'Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland'. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Bruce, S. (2006). 'Secularization'. Unknown Publisher, The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion.
• Bruce, S. & Yearley, S. (2005). 'The Sage Dictionary of Sociology'. Unknown Publisher, Sage.
• Bruce, S., Glendinning, A., Paterson, I. & Rosie, M. (2004). 'Sectarianism in Scotland'. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Bruce, S. (2003). 'Politics and Religion'. Unknown Publisher, Polity Press, Oxford.
• Bruce, S. (2002). 'God is Dead: secularization in the West'. Unknown Publisher, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Bruce, S. (2001). 'Fundamentalism'. Key Concepts in the Social Sciences, Polity Press, Maldon, Mass, USA.

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