When Professor Beckford wrote "Scientology, Social Science and the Definition of Religion" in 1980, he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Durham. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
1. Professor Beckford wrote this paper in 1980.
2. For stylistic reasons I shall no longer mention "conceptualisation",
but it does constitute a
separable analytic process which usually precedes the process of defining
phenomena.