Summary

James T. Richardson is an Emeritus Foundation Professor of Sociology and Judicial w88 casino games login. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1968 and his J.D. from the Old College, Nevada School of Law in 1986. He has been teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1968. He directs the master's and doctoral judicial w88 casino games login program for trial judges as well as the justice management master's program for others who work in the justice system.

w88 casino games login is the co-author and editor of 10 books, including Organized Miracles, Money and Power in the New Religions, The Satanism Scare, Regulating Religion: Cases w88 casino games login from around the Globe and Saints under Siege: The Texas Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. He has also published numerous articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and other scholarly journals, including law reviews.

His areas of specialization include the sociology of law, the sociology of religion, social psychology of law, social movements, social and behavioral science evidence. He is currently engaged in comparative research on law and religion, including use of courts to exert social control over minority religions, treatment of Muslims in court, evidentiary issues in courts, jury w88 casino games login and new minority faiths around the world.

Books:

• Fokas, Effie and James T. w88 casino games login (2018). The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions. Routledge. (This was a special issued of Religion, State, and Society, with some additional chapters included).
• Possamai, Adam, J. T. w88 casino games login, & Bryan Turner (eds.), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case w88 casino games login from around the World, New York: Springer, 2014.
• w88 casino games login, James T. & Francois Bellanger (eds.). Legal Cases Involving New Religions and Minority Faiths. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014.
• Possamai, Adam, J.T. w88 casino games login, & Bryan S. Turner (eds.) (2014). Legal Pluralism and Shari'a Law. London: Routledge (This was a originally special issue of Democracy and Security which we edited.)
• Wright, S., & w88 casino games login, J. T. (eds.). (2011). Saints under Siege: The Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints in Texas, New York University Press.
• Beckford, J. A., & w88 casino games login, J. T. (eds.). (2004). Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker. New York: Taylor & Francis.
• w88 casino games login, J. T. (ed.). (2004). Regulating Religion: Case w88 casino games login from Around the Globe. New York: Kluwer.
• w88 casino games login, J. T., Best, J., & Bromley, D. (eds.). (1991). The Satanism Scare. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
• w88 casino games login, J. T. (ed.). (1988). Money and Power in the New Religions. New York: Edwin Mellen.
• Bromley, D., & w88 casino games login, J. T. (eds.). (1983) The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy: Sociological, Psychological, Legal and Historical Perspectives. Toronto; Edwin Mellen Press

Journal Articles:

• w88 casino games login, James T. (2018). "Eileen Barker: Dear friend and colleague". Religion and Society. Forthcoming.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2018). "The European Court of Human Rights: Changes and challenges in the social construction of religious freedom". Religion-Stat-Gesellschaft. Forthcoming.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2017) "Update on Jehovah's Witness cases before the European Court of Human rights: Implications of a surprising partnership." Religion, State & Society 45 (3-4): 232-248.
• Fokas, Effie and J.T. w88 casino games login (2017). The European Court of Human Rights and minority religions: messages generated and messages received." Religion, State & Society 45(3-4): 166-173.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2017) Managing religion: Courts as ‘partners' and ‘third party partisans' in the social construction of religious freedom. Religioni e Societa - Religions and Human Rights Special Issue 32(87): 13-19.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2015). Managing religion: The judicialization of religious freedom. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religio 54(1): 1-19. Presidential Address, at 2014 annual meeting in Indianapolis.
• Thomas, Rebecca and James T. w88 casino games login. (2015). Parental Alienation Syndrome: 30 years and still junk science. Judges' Journal 54 (3):22, 24.
• Reichert, Jenny, J.T. w88 casino games login, and Rebecca Thomas. (2015). "Brainwashing": Diffusion of a questionable concept in the legal system. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 6(1): 3-26.
• w88 casino games login, J.T. and Brian Lee (2014). The role of the courts in the social construction of religious freedom in Central and Eastern Europe. Review of Eastern and Central European Law, 39: 291-313.
• Wrights, S. and J.T. w88 casino games login (2014). The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints after the Texas state raid: Assessing the post-raid movement trajectory. Nova Religio, 17(4), 83-97.

Book Chapters:

• w88 casino games login, James T. (2018). "The role of Jehovah's Witnesses case law in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights." Forthcoming in Effie Fokas (ed.), Freedom of and Freedom from Belief at the European Court of Human Rights.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2017). "The law, the courts, religious freedom, and the evolving pattern of jurisprudence in Western societies. In E. Gallagher (ed.), ‘Cult Wars in Historical Perspective: New and Minority Religions. London: Routledge, 69-80.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2016), "Law and social control of religion." In David Yamane (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Society. New York: Springer, 485-502.
• w88 casino games login, James T. (2016). Legal dimensions of new religions. In James Lewis (ed.), Oxford Handbook of New Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 152-173.
• Springer, V.A., Martini, P.J., & w88 casino games login, J.T. (2016). Online Crowdsourcing Methods for Identifying and Studying Minority Religious Groups. In S. Cheruvallil-Contractor & S. Shakkour (eds.), Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion (pp. 27-37), New York: Bloomsbury.
• w88 casino games login, J.T. (2015). In defense of religious rights: Jehovah's Witness legal cases around the world. In Stephen Hunt (ed.), Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity, 285-307. New York: Brill.
• Aires, Wolf and J.T. w88 casino games login (2015). Trial and Error: Muslims and Shari'a in the German Context. In Adam Possamai, J.T. w88 casino games login, and Bryan Turner (eds.), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case w88 casino games login from Around the World, 139-154. New York: Springer.
• Turner, Bryan and J.T. w88 casino games login (2015). The future of legal pluralism. In Adam Possamai, J.T. w88 casino games login, and Bryan Turner (eds.), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case w88 casino games login from Around the World, 305-314. New York: Springer.
• w88 casino games login, J. T. (2015). Contradictions, conflicts, dilemmas, and temporary resolutions: A sociology of law analysis of Shari'a in selected western societies. In Adam Possamai, J.T. w88 casino games login, and Bryan Turner (Eds.), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case w88 casino games login from Around the World, 237-252. New York: Springer.
• w88 casino games login, J.T. and J. Shoemaker. (2014). "The resurrection of religion in America? The ‘tea' cases, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the war on drugs." In J.T. w88 casino games login and Francois Bellanger (Eds.), Legal Cases involving New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths, 71-88. London: Ashgate.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• J.D., Nevada School of Law, 1986
• Ph.D., Sociology, Washington State University, 1968
• M.A., Texas Tech University, 1966
• B.A., Texas Tech University, 1965