Author

Joseph M. Bryant

Observed names: J. M. Bryant, Joseph Bryant, Joseph M Bryant, Joseph M. Bryant

Institution: University of Toronto

Observed institutions: University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto

ORCID: 0009-0000-1193-7972

Observed ORCID: 0009-0000-1193-7972

OpenAlex ID: A5066906115

The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336

1996 · Joseph M. Bryant, Caroline Walker Bynum · Sociology of Religion · 160

The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity

2006 · Joseph M. Bryant · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 74

Evidence and Explanation in History and Sociology: Critical Reflections on Goldthorpe's Critique of Historical Sociology

1994 · Joseph M. Bryant · British Journal of Sociology · 63

Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics.

1997 · Walter Donlan, Joseph M. Bryant · The American Historical Review · 61

An Evolutionary Social Science? A Skeptic’s Brief, Theoretical and Substantive

2004 · Joseph M. Bryant · Philosophy of the Social Sciences · 47

Cost-Benefit Accounting and the Piety Business: Is Homo REllGiosus, At Bottom, a Homo Economicus?1

2000 · Joseph M. Bryant · Method & Theory in the Study of Religion · 41

The Sociology of Early Buddhism

2007 · Joseph M. Bryant, Greg Bailey, et al. · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 38

Positivism Redivivus? A Critique of Recent Uncritical Proposals for Reforming Sociological Theory (And Related Foibles)

1992 · Joseph M. Bryant · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 38

The Christians and the Roman Empire

1988 · Joseph M. Bryant, Marta Sordi, et al. · Review of Religious Research · 38

On sources and narratives in historical social science: a realist critique of positivist and postmodernist epistemologies

2000 · Joseph M. Bryant · British Journal of Sociology · 35

Military Technology and Socio-Cultural Change in the Ancient Greek City

1990 · Joseph M Bryant · The Sociological Review · 35

The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity

2006 · Joseph M. Bryant · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 32

Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics

1999 · Frances Pownall, Joseph M. Bryant · Phoenix · 25

Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology

2006 · Joseph M. Bryant · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 24

The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History

1997 · Joseph M. Bryant, Rodney Stark · Sociology of Religion · 20

The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries

1995 · Joseph M. Bryant, Wayne A. Meeks · Sociology of Religion · 18

Historical Methods in the Social Sciences

2005 · John Hall, Joseph Bryant · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · 14

A New Sociology for a New History? Further Critical Thoughts on the Eurasian Similarity and Great Divergence Theses

2008 · Joseph Bryant · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 13

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The Sect-Church Dynamic and Christian Expansion in the Roman Empire: Persecution, Penitential Discipline, and Schism in Sociological Perspective

1993 · Joseph M. Bryant · British Journal of Sociology · 12

Intellectuals and Religion in Ancient Greece: Notes on a Weberian Theme

1986 · Joseph M. Bryant · British Journal of Sociology · 12

The Sociology of Early Christianity

2010 · Joseph M. Bryant · 11

Grand, yet grounded: ontology, theory, and method in Michael Mann's historical sociology

2006 · Joseph Bryant · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 10

Wavering saints, mass religiosity, and the crisis of post-baptismal sin in early Christianity:a Weberian reading ofThe Shepherd of Hermas

1998 · Joseph M. Bryant · European Journal of Sociology · 6

11. Ashoka and Constantine: On Mega-Actors and the Politics of Empires and Religions

2019 · Joseph M. Bryant · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 4

Towards a Respectable, Reflexive, Scientific Sociology: A Note on the Reformation Required

1992 · Joseph M. Bryant · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 3

Works count: 52

Citation count: 841

H-index: 16

I10-index: 22