In principle churches proclaim their invitation to worship to all sectors of the population. In practice some sectors appear more willing to respond. Alongside the more visible demographic bias in terms of sex and age, this study draws attention to the less visible bias in terms of psychological type. New data provided by 185 rural…
Rural Theology Template
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About the Rural Theology format
Rural Theology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Religion, Society, and Development, Christian Theology and Mission, Religious Tourism and Spaces.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Rural Theology 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Religion, Society, and Development Christian Theology and Mission Religious Tourism and Spaces Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies Biblical Studies and Interpretation |
| ISSN | 1470-4994 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.15 |
| h-index | 20 |
| i10-index | 43 |
| Total citations | 1,387 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Warwick |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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Most-cited papers in Rural Theology
The remote and rural St Davids Cathedral in west Wales receives a steady flow of visitors throughout the year. In order to develop its ministry in this field, a sample of 514 visitors completed a detailed questionnaire designed to explore their experiences of the cathedral, together with a measure of their personal church attendance. The…
A sample of 318 stipendiary male clergy in the Church of England who held responsibility for rural parishes completed a modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory together with a questionnaire designed to assess their practice of ministry. The data suggest that an unacceptably high number of rural clergy show signs of emotional exhaustion from…
The study explores the content of ordinary people's prayers by analysing 1,067 prayer cards left in one rural church over a sixteenth-month period. The analysis is placed in the theoretical context of ordinary theology, and it uses a conceptual framework which distinguishes between three aspects of ordinary intercessory and ordinary supplicatory prayer defined as reference,…
Visitors to a medieval church in a small village in north-west England demonstrate by their requests for prayer and their remarks in the visitors’ book how they appreciate the ambience of the building in generating a feeling of calm and quiet and a sense of sacred space. Their remarks also show how the experience helps…