Wsf PickeringThe Revd Dr William S.F. Pickering has been an Anglican priest since 1950, and for twenty years was a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently the General Secretary of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies,which he helped to found in 1991. It is based in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University. He has written and edited a number of books and articles on Durkheim and his followers, including Durkheim on Religion, Durkheim's Sociology of Religion and Durkheim: Essays on Morals and Education, all three of which have recently been reprinted by James Clarke and Co Ltd. Among his other publications are Sociology and Theology: Alliance and Conflict (Harvester Press, 1980), A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle 1882-1982 (Oriel Press, 1981), The Hutterites (Ward Lock Educational, 1982). Read More Read Less