Books by Stephen Pattison

Advances an ethical and theoretical approach to meaningful relations with humble objects. This book synthesizes theories and thought from different disciplines on the nature of sight, perception and relations to visual artefacts.

In this work, the author advances a powerful case for a re-energized, committed public theology, alongside a politicized and compassionate form of pastoral care.

This book discusses questions concerning what face is, how important face is in human life and relationships, and how we might understand face, both as a physical phenomenon and as a series of socially-inflected symbols and metaphors about the self and the body.

Arguing that managers have become the cultural heroes of our time, this book looks at the values, assumptions, beliefs and practices they espouse. It maintains that managerialism is a form of religious faith, and that the gurus of managerialism draw upon the utopian language of religion.