The Desecularisation of the city : London's churches, 1980 to the present / David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper -- The demography of religion in London since 1980 / Eric Kaufmann -- The 2012 London church census / Peter Brierley -- Walking down the Old Kent Road : new black majority churches in the London borough of Southwark / Andrew Rogers -- New churches in Newham / Colin Marchant -- Using geotagged Twitter data to uncover hidden church populations / Anthony-Paul Cooper -- Growth and decline in London Methodism, 1980 to the present / Alan Piggot -- Mission out of Africa : the case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in London / Babatunde Adedibu -- Brazilian churches in London / Daniel Clark -- Capital-wide missions and the rise of London's black-led churches / Hugh Osgood -- Demogaphics and the Russian Orthodox Church in London / Robert Collins -- London's new churches : the example of the Newfontiers Network / Sam Jeffery and William K. Kay -- The Diocese of London and the Anglican Church in London, 1980 to the present / Bob Jackson -- Anglican Church planting in East London, c. 2005-15 / Tim Thorlby -- Visibly different : continuity and change at Westminster Cathedral / Marion Bowman, Simon Coleman, John Jenkins, Tiina Sepp -- Church decline and growth in London : taking the long view / John Wolffe -- London's churches : sociological perspectives / Grace Davis.
Summary:
"Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London's churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980. The Desecularisation of the City provides the first academic survey of churches in London over recent decades, linking them to similar developments in other major cities across the West. Produced by a large team of scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume offers a striking and original portrait of congregational life in London since 1980. Seventeen chapters explore the diverse localities, ethnicities and denominations that make up the church in contemporary London. The vitality of London's churches in the last four decades shows that secularisation is far from inevitable in the cities of the future. This study necessitates a significant reassessment of the dominant academic portrayal of Christianity in Britain and the West, which has, mostly, depicted cities as secular spaces within a secularising culture. It will be of great interest to scholars working across a wide range of disciplines, including history, sociology, religious studies and theology"-- Provided by publisher.
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