Books in the Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology series

Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century. This book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards spirituality through the experiences of health care chaplains. It also describe a crisis in the nature of spiritual care.

Building on the concepts of implicit and invisible religion, the author offers a fresh and original interpretative 'take' on contemporary society, appealing to clergy, laity, scholars and all those working in the field of theory and reflective practice in practical and pastoral theology.

Surveillance studies is an emerging, inter-disciplinary field that brings together scholars from sociology, criminology, political studies, computing and information studies, cultural studies and other disciplines. This books looks at the surveillance practices and ideologies from a Christian theological perspective.

Drawing on studies of church engagement with asylum-seekers in the UK and critical immigration and refugee issues in North America, this book presents an extended theological reflection on both the issue of asylum-seeking and the fears of established populations surrounding immigration.

Through the unique chaplain's eye view of the significance of their experience for understanding the ethics of war.

Through the unique chaplain's eye view of the significance of their experience for understanding the ethics of war.

Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Presenting the interviews with Christian women survivors, it states that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others.

Explores the ordinary beliefs and practices of Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians in relation to the Holy Spirit.

Ordinary theology' characterizes the reflective God-talk of the great majority of churchgoers, and others who remain largely untouched by the assumptions, concepts and arguments that academic theology takes for granted. Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology.

Offers an account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. This title analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers.