Journals
The Association's journal, Rural Theology, free to all members, is now published twice a year and studies relevant issues in depth. Recent issues are available online to members, as detailed below. As well as new subscriptions, some old back numbers are available - please contact the Secretary via the website link. A Newsletter is also sent to the members quarterly, and is usually available on this website shortly after publication.
The Editor of Rural Theology is the Revd Canon Professor Leslie J Francis. His editorial team can be contacted via:
Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, Institute of Education, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.
See below titles and abstracts of journal articles. Logged-in members can view the entire articles in PDF format.
Index
This index to Rural Theology and its predecessor A Better Country is a work in progress, growing from the most recent issue backwards in time. The index is therefore unusual in that works by the same author are cited in reverse order by year. At the moment, journals are now completely indexed from 1995 to date. Please note that journals from 2010 onwards (i.e. RT 8(1)) are not available on this website, and can only be found by accessing the publisher's website at www.equinoxpub.com.
Citations after mid-2003 are in the form RT 7(1), i.e. Rural Theology Volume 7 Part 1. Citations before mid-2003 are in the form RT 58, i.e. Rural Theology Issue 58. Citations of A Better Country are in the form ABC 9.
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The Index of Authors precedes the Index of Books Reviewed.
Volume 7, Part 2, 2009
In this issue:
- Discipleship and vocation: living theology today
- The dear departed: prayers for the dead on a prayer tree in a rural English parish church
- Living the pressures of rural ministry: two case studies
- Biblical perspectives on established stressors within the farming community
- Tiller twenty-five years on
- Research report: The Cana in Galilee phenomenon: influences on biblical literalism among rural Anglicans today
- Book reviews
Volume 7, Part 1, 2009
In this issue:
- The social significance of Harvest Festivals in the countryside: an empirical enquiry among those who attend
- Ordinary prayer and the rural church: an empirical study of prayer cards
- A village Sunday School
- A missionary paradigm for the rural church in the light of 1 Peter
- Research report: Personality and the call to rural ministry
- Book reviews
Volume 6, Part 2, 2008
In this issue:
- Global climate change: agricultural implications and theological reflections
- Working as an Anglican priest and as an academic anthropologist
- The kneelers are most impressive: reflections on reading a visitors' book
- Rural churchgoing in England: where age is important
- A tale of two mountains: mountains in biblical spirituality
- Book reviews
Volume 6, Part 1, 2008
In this issue:
- Sheep and goats: pastoral imagery in the bible and today
- Communion by extension: discrepancies between policy and practice
- Rural ministry: historical case studies from mid-nineteenth century Australian colonies
- How happy are rural Anglican clergy?
- Perceptions of stress on those in rural ministry: listening to church leaders
- Book reviews
Volume 5, Part 2, 2007
In this issue:
- The pastoral imperatives in rural ministry: helping rural people discern God's activity in their midst
- Pastoral fragments: discovered remnants of a rural past
- The vicar and the vicar's garden
- Visitor experiences of St Davids Cathedral: the two worlds of pilgrims and secular tourists
- Church closure and membership statistics: a Methodist perspective
- Book reviews
Volume 5, Part 1, 2007
In this issue:
- Jesus and hinterland
- Children and communion: listening to churchwardens in rural and urban Wales
- All types are called, but some are more likely to respond: the psychological profile of rural Anglican churchgoers in Wales
- Interpreting statistics on church attendance: why more will mean less
- Mobile mission bases in the countryside: a caravan in the market square
- Research report: Learning from prayer requests in a rural church: an exercise in ordinary theology
- Research report: Psychological type profile of volunteer workers in a rural Christian charity shop
- Book reviews
Volume 4, Part 2, 2006
In this issue:
- The invisible countryside of the New Testament
- Belonging to rural church and society: theological and sociological perspectives
- Sacred place and pilgrimage: modern visitors to the shrine of St Melangell
- The old rectory: the Church of England’s sale of its parsonages
- Research report: The effectiveness of a lunch club for the elderly: a rural case study
- Research report: Views on baptism and confirmation in the Church in Wales: are rural clergy different?
- Book reviews
Volume 4, Part 1, 2006
In this issue:
- A pure church? Ecclesiological reflections from the Gospel of Matthew
- Research report: Burnout and the practice of ministry among rural clergy: looking for the hidden signs
- Church closure and membership statistics: trends in four rural dioceses
- Extended communion: a second best option for rural Anglicanism?
- Local festivals in two Pennine villages: the reactions of the local Methodist church congregations
- Book reviews
Volume 3, Part 2, 2005
In this issue:
- God in creation: a reflection on Jürgen Moltmann’s theology
- Social capital generated by two rural churches: the role of individual believers
- Terrain, architectural style and theology: chapel design in Pennine hill village
- The extended parish
- Research report: Psychological type preference of rural churchgoers
- Book reviews
Volume 3, Part 1, 2005
In this issue:
- Ploughing a different furrow: faith, farming and the market
- Deployment of the churches’ ministry: Anglicans and Methodists in a rural diocese
- Rural Anglicanism: one face or many?
- Theological reflections on rural change
- Research report: Ideas of the holy: the ordinary theology of visitors to rural churches
- Book reviews
Volume 2, Part 2, 2004
In this issue:
- Israelite Wisdom and pastoral theology in the rural church
- Enabling collaborative ministry in rural Anglicanism
- Is the rural church different? The special case of confirmation
- The priesthood of creation: the Hulsean Sermon 2004
- Research report: Do introverted clergy prefer rural ministry?
- Book reviews
Volume 2, Part 1, 2004
In this issue:
- Encountering New Age spirituality: opportunities and challenges for the rural church - John Drane
- What is a funeral for? - J Hugh A James
- The rural idyll and the kingdom of Christ - Anne Richards
- Blackshawhead: a local case history in rural church categorisation - Lewis Burton
- Research report: I was glad: listening to visitors to country churches - Keith Littler, Leslie J Francis, Jeremy Martineau
- Book reviews
Volume 1, Part 1, 2003
In this issue:
- Ordinary theology for rural theology and rural ministry - Jeff Astley
- Psychological type and biblical hermeneutics: SIFT method of preaching - Leslie J. Francis
- Is the rural Church different? A comparison of historical membership statistics between an urban and a rural diocese in the Church of England - Carol Roberts
- Anglicans and Methodists in the countryside: convergence and divergence in Church structures - Lewis Burton
- Research report: What rural churches say to non-churchgoers - Keith Littler, Leslie J. Francis
- Book reviews
Please note that Volume 1 Part 1 was in fact the second issue of 2003, and that there is therefore no Volume 1 Part 2.
Issue 60, 2003
In this issue:
- Mark the rural evangelist
- A puckring kosh to Nowhere (A sign post to Nowhere): A theological reflection on the plight of Gypsies and Travellers
- Has the church lost its way?
- Responding to the Countryside Alliance
- The Eden Project: eighth wonder of the post-modern world
- Cope's comment
- Computer usage: profiles of British rural clergy
- Esau's England: a reflection on a Sunday in London
Issue 59, 2002
In this issue:
- Editorial: icons for our time
- Does God speak circumstantially?
- Creation and recreation: abbreviated address given to the Rural Resurrection? conference May 2002 Swanwick
- Hope for the rural: a reflection at the close of the Rural Resurrection? conference
- Global/local - another way?
- Cope's comment
- No easy answers? Rural church buildings
- The future of food and farming in the countryside: summary of a paper given at the Maltings, Ely on 15th February 2002
- Book review
Issue 58, 2002
In this issue:
- Editorial: facing the future: God's alternative for rural industry and rural churches
- Rural resurrection? Partners in hope
- The Curry Commission on farming and food: on first looking into it: a farmer's response
- Rural churches in the red: shall we treasure them?
- Church buildings: thinking the unthinkable
- Consumerism and the church
- Seasonal Worship in the Countryside: a preview of the book
- Cope's comment
- Book reviews
Issue 57, 2002
In this issue:
- Whose land is it anyway? Creator and creation in the Christian tradition
- Town and country community: reality v. illusion? inclusive v. exclusive?
- The urban-rural divide: bridging the gap
- The Forest of Dean: a glimpse of the kingdom?
- The country of Galilee, the city of Jerusalem: denial and destiny
- 'The pub is the hub'
- A theology of nimbyism
- The pull of the countryside for townies: the influence of English country writers from 1918 until today
- Cope's comment
- Book review
Issue 56, 2001
In this issue:
- Editorial: as it is in heaven
- Editorial: Peter Lawrence writes
- A future for farming: a review of a Family Farmers' Association discussion paper
- Farmers, pharisees and tax collectors
- Genoa and all that
- The future of UK agriculture: aspects and agritheology
- The warning of Laodicea
- Cope's comment
Issue 55, 2001
In this issue:
- Editorial: rural theology is 'joined up' theology
- God's values for today's farming practices
- Is the rural church in exile? A theological reflection on the issues of migration in rural communities
- Exile, migration and asylum seeking: where is the church?
- Church culture and agriculture in Ethiopia
- Scientism, paganism and the death of science?
- Cope's comment
- The John Ray Initiative launches a new phase
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