Thinker
Bryan Wilson
Bryan Wilson is central to 8 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2024 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
8Questions
2009–24Years tested
I & IIPaper
2Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Bryan Wilson
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
differentiation 3religious pluralism 3secularisation 3desecularization 2new religious movements 2privatisation of religion 2rationalisation 2secularization thesis 2charisma and conversionchurch-sect typologycivil religioncultdesecularisation and religious revivaldifferentiation and disengagementdisenchantmentmodernizationmulticulturalismprivatization of religion
Where Bryan Wilson appears in the syllabus
Every question on Bryan Wilson
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
2024
2016
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