David Martin (sociologist)

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David Alfred Martin , FBA (born June 30, 1929 in London - † March 8, 2019 ) was a British sociologist and Anglican priest . His research focus was the sociology of religion .

David Martin

Life

David Martin was born in London in 1929 as the son of a cleaning lady from Dorset and a chauffeur from Hertfordshire . His parents were Methodists and regular churchgoers. With a scholarship he was able to attend the East Sheen Grammar School (comparable to a high school) from 1940 to 1947.

After serving in the Non-Combatant Corps, a non-armed logistics unit of the British arms, from 1948 to 1950, he became a primary school teacher. He taught in elementary schools in London and Somerset from 1952 to 1959. During this time, he studied sociology by distance learning from 1956. He graduated in 1959 and received a scholarship to do a doctorate at the London School of Economics .

Martin received his doctorate in 1964 for his dissertation Pacifism: a Historical and Sociological Study , which was published the following year. After a stopover at the University of Sheffield , he became a reader at the London School of Economics in 1967 and a professor in 1971 . Since 2007 he has been a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Private life

David Martin was a Methodist and a church minister from 1953 to 1977. He then converted to the Anglican Church . From 1983 he attended the seminary, became a deacon in the same year and an Anglican priest in 1984 .

In 1953 Martin Daphne married Sylvia Treherne. The marriage was dissolved in 1957. In 1962 Martin married Bernice Thompson, who herself worked as a sociologist at Bedford College .

Works (selection)

  • Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization, (Penguin Journal of the Social Sciences, 1965)
  • Pacifism: A Historical and Sociological Study, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965)
  • A Sociology of English Religion, (SCM, 1967)
  • The Religious and the Secular, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969)
  • Tracts against the Times , (Lutterworth, 1973)
  • A General Theory of Secularization, (Blackwell, 1978)
  • The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion , (Blackwell, 1978)
  • The Breaking of the Image: A Sociology of Christian Theory and Practice, (Blackwell, 1980)
  • Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America, (Blackwell, 1990)
  • Forbidden Revolutions: Pentecostalism in Latin American and Catholicism in Eastern Europe, (SPCK, 1996)
  • Reflections on Sociology and Theology, (Clarendon, 1997)
  • Does Christianity Cause War ?, (Clarendon, 1997)
  • Christian Language and Its Mutations: Essays in Sociological Understanding, (Ashgate, 2002)
  • Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish, (Blackwell, 2002)
  • Christian Language in the Secular City, (Ashgate 2002)
  • On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory, (Ashgate, 2005)
  • Sacred History and Sacred Geography: Spiritual Journeys in Time and Space, (Regent College, 2008)
  • The Future of Christianity: Reflections on Violence and Democracy, Religion and Secularization, (Ashgate, 2011)
  • The Education of David Martin: The Making of an Unlikely Sociologist, (SPCK, 2013)
  • Religion and Power: No Logos without Mythos, (Ashgate, 2014)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin, Rev. Prof. David Alfred, (30 June 1929–8 March 2019), Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London University, 1971–89, then Emeritus | WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Accessed January 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Martin, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, David Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist and Anglican priest
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2019