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The Empirical Science of Religious Education

Product Description: The Empirical Science of Religious Education draws together a collection of innovative articles in the field of religious education which passed the editorial scrutiny of Professor Robert Jackson over the course of his impactful fourteen year career as editor of the British Journal of Religious Education...read more

By Leslie J. Francis (editor) and Mandy Robbins (editor)

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9781138929852 | Routledge, January 29, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The Empirical Science of Religious Education draws together a collection of innovative articles in the field of religious education which passed the editorial scrutiny of Professor Robert Jackson over the course of his impactful fourteen year career as editor of the British Journal of Religious Education.

Anglican Cathedrals in Modern Life: The Science of Cathedral Studies

By Leslie J. Francis (editor)

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9781137553010 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 29, 2015, cover price $100.00

History, Remembrance and Religious Education

By Leslie J. Francis (editor)

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9783034317207 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 16, 2014, cover price $80.95

Exploring Ordinary Theology: Everyday Christian Believing and the Church

Product Description: '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. Jeff Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology, arguing that 'speaking statistically ordinary theology is the theology of God's Church'...read more

By Leslie J. Francis (editor)

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9781409442561 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: '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.

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9781409442578 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: '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.

Why Do Young People Decide to Become Christian Ministers?: Applying Psychological Type Theory to Understand the Choices of Vocation by Canadian Baptist Teenagers

By Bruce G. Fawcett and Leslie J. Francis (foreword by)

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9780773426344 | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 19, 2012, cover price $139.95

Religious Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief

By Leslie J. Francis (editor), Rob Freathy (editor) and Stephen Parker (editor)

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9783034307543 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 7, 2012, cover price $64.95

Teaching Religion, Teaching Truth: Theorectical and Empirical Perspectives

Product Description: Religious educators today are called upon to enable young people to develop as fully-rounded human beings in a multicultural and multifaith world. It is no longer sufficient to teach about the history of religions: religion is not relegated to the past...read more

By Jeff Astley (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor), Mandy Robbins (editor) and Mualla Selcuk (editor)

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9783034308182 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 23, 2012, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Religious educators today are called upon to enable young people to develop as fully-rounded human beings in a multicultural and multifaith world.

Clergy Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion: A Socio-Psychological Study of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction

Product Description: A study that examines the practical implications of a questionnaire survey on the experiences of Church of England clergy.

By Leslie J. Francis (foreword by) and Douglas W. Turton

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9780773436480 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 30, 2010, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: A study that examines the practical implications of a questionnaire survey on the experiences of Church of England clergy.

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9780192875730, titled "Thomas More" | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | also contains Thomas More | About this edition: More (Past Masters)

International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing

Product Description: Acknowledging and understanding spiritual formation is vital in contemporary education. This book explores the dynamic relationship between education and wellbeing. It examines the theory underpinning the practice of education in different societies where spirituality and care are believed to be at the heart of all educational experiences...read more

By Marian De Souza (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor) and James O'higgins-norman (editor)

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9781402090172 | Springer Verlag, September 1, 2009, cover price $809.00 | About this edition: Acknowledging and understanding spiritual formation is vital in contemporary education.

The Mind of the Anglican Clergy: Assessing Atitudes and Beliefs in the Church of England

Product Description: The study illustrates the broad diversity of opinion held by Anglican clergy on key issues dividing or uniting the Church of England today, including attitudes toward homosexuality, divorce and foundational beliefs of Christianity...read more

By Leslie J. Francis

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9780773448032 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 31, 2009, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: The study illustrates the broad diversity of opinion held by Anglican clergy on key issues dividing or uniting the Church of England today, including attitudes toward homosexuality, divorce and foundational beliefs of Christianity.

Gone for Good?: Church-Leaving and Returning in the Twenty-First Century

Gives many first-hand accounts of people leaving the church and their reasons. Following on from an analysis of these reasons, this book begins to develop a realistic pastoral strategy for church growth.

By Leslie J. Francis and Philip Richter

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9780716206330 | Epworth Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gives many first-hand accounts of people leaving the church and their reasons.

Peace or Violence: The Ends of Religion and Education?

Product Description: Religion’s impact on world politics has been of major concern since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and America’s military response. Peace or Violence addresses the timely question of the role of religious education—does it merely inculcate the fundamentalist mindset that leads to sectarian violence or can it instead promote peace? Through an analysis and evaluation of many of the different models of religious education across the Western world, this book considers religion’s role in a polarized and globalized world...read more

By Jeff Astley (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor) and Mandy Robbins (editor)

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9780708320785 | Univ of Wales Pr, September 20, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Religion’s impact on world politics has been of major concern since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and America’s military response.

Faith Schools and Pupil Values: Citizenship for Heaven

By Leslie J. Francis

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9780713040500 | Woburn Pr, March 31, 2007, cover price $45.95

Exploring Mark's Gospel: An Aid for Readers and Preachers Using Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary

Product Description: Originally published as Personality, Type and Scripture, this acclaimed book is nowÂ available in a revised and expanded form. Each cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary is based on one of the synoptic gospels (Mark, Luke, Matthew)...read more

By Leslie J. Francis

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9780826480958 | Rev exp edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 1, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Originally published as Personality, Type and Scripture, this acclaimed book is nowÂ available in a revised and expanded form.

9780826465627 | 2 rev exp edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2003), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Originally published as Personality, Type and Scripture, this acclaimed book is now republished in a revised and expanded form.

Archive for the Psychology of Religion/ Archiv Fur Religions Psychologie

Product Description: The Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is the oldest medium in the psychology of religion. It is the official organ of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Religionspsychologie (International Association for the Psychology of Religion [IAPR]) founded in 1914...read more

By M. Aletti (editor), Jacob A. Belzen (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor), B. Hallahmi (editor) and Ralph W. Hood, Jr. (editor)

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9789004152724 | Brill Academic Pub, July 31, 2006, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: The Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is the oldest medium in the psychology of religion.

Fragmented Faith?: Exposing the Fault-lines in the Church of England

By Jeff Astley, Leslie J. Francis and Mandy Robbins

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9781842273821 | Authentic Media, April 13, 2006, cover price $29.99

Archiv FÃ¼r Religionspsychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion

By Jacob A. Belzen (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor) and Ralph W. Hood, Jr. (editor)

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9789004148031, titled "Archiv FÃ¼r Religionspsychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion" | Brill Academic Pub, October 25, 2005, cover price $87.00

Religion, Education, And Adolescence: International Empirical Perspectives

Product Description: Drawing together Christian, Islamic, and Jewish theologies, this educational resource sponsored by the International Seminar of Religious Education and Values explores the religious perceptions of adolescents using the research techniques of sociology, psychology, and anthropology...read more

By Jeff Astley (editor), Leslie J. Francis (editor) and Mandy Robbins (editor)

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9780708319574 | Univ of Wales Pr, April 4, 2005, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Drawing together Christian, Islamic, and Jewish theologies, this educational resource sponsored by the International Seminar of Religious Education and Values explores the religious perceptions of adolescents using the research techniques of sociology, psychology, and anthropology.

Faith And Psychology: Personality, Religion And the Individual

Product Description: Once seen as a major enemy of faith, psychology is now recognised as a key ally by many Christians. In this clear and challenging book Francis demonstrates how the theory of psychological type can help us to understand better the shape of our personal spirituality, our preferences in publoc worship and the nature of our religious experience...read more

By Leslie J. Francis

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9780232525441 | Darton Longman & Todd Ltd, June 30, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Once seen as a major enemy of faith, psychology is now recognised as a key ally by many Christians.

A Reader on Preaching: Making Connections

Product Description: Every Sunday all over the world people rise up and claim to speak in the name of God. It is an astonishing thing to do and an astonishing claim to make. It is small wonder that the sermon has been the focus of debate, discussion and investigation...read more

By Jeff Astley (editor), David Day (editor) and Leslie J. Francis (editor)

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9780754650034 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 28, 2005, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Every Sunday all over the world people rise up and claim to speak in the name of God.

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9780754650096 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 28, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Every Sunday all over the world people rise up and claim to speak in the name of God.

Changing Rural Life: A Christian Response to Key Rural Issues

Product Description: A prestigious and significant volume offering theological relection on a wide range of issues relating to the countryside, the rural economy and rural life. At a time when it has been officially recognised that British society is deeply uninformed about rural matters, this is a critical contribution from the Church to the wider debate taking place...read more

By Leslie J. Francis (editor), Peter Francis (editor) and Jeremy Martineau (editor)

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9781853115998 | Canterbury Pr Norwich, November 30, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A prestigious and significant volume offering theological relection on a wide range of issues relating to the countryside, the rural economy and rural life.

The Naked Parish Priest: What Priests Really Think They're Doing

Product Description: Based on a survey sent out to Catholic clergy in the UK, this study is a major contribution from empirical theology towards interpreting the health and potential of the priesthood today. The issues raised by this new study concern the nature and health of the priesthood, a topic of most urgent concern at a time of clerical scandal and abuse...read more

By Leslie J. Francis and Stephen H. Louden

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9780826467980 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2003, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Based on a survey sent out to Catholic clergy in the UK, this study is a major contribution from empirical theology towards interpreting the health and potential of the priesthood today.

Children, Churches and Christian Learning

Product Description: A comprehensive resource for anyone working with children in a Christian context, whether in schools, churches, youth groups or other organisations. Subjects covered include: The Sunday School Movement and its importance, worship with children, children and schools, children's religious experience, children and pastoral care and the law relating to children...read more

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9780281055326 | Society for Promoting Christian, January 1, 2003, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive resource for anyone working with children in a Christian context, whether in schools, churches, youth groups or other organisations.

The Values Debate: A Voice from the Pupils

Product Description: Presents findings from a survey conducted among 30,000 13-15 year olds throughout England and Wales, giving particular attention to social, personal and moral issues. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leslie J. Francis

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9780713002096 | Routledge, June 1, 2001, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Presents findings from a survey conducted among 30,000 13-15 year olds throughout England and Wales, giving particular attention to social, personal and moral issues.

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9780713040296 | Routledge, June 1, 1999, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Presents findings from a survey conducted among 30,000 13-15 year olds throughout England and Wales, giving particular attention to social, personal and moral issues.

Learning With the Sunday Gospels: Take Home Sheets : Trinity Sunday to Christ the King

Product Description: This is an all-age course for churches, church schools and Sunday schools, based on the Gospels of the Revised Common Lectionary. It includes sections on: preparation; exploring with children; exploring with adults; and celebrating together. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Diane Drayson and Leslie J. Francis

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9780264674988 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This is an all-age course for churches, church schools and Sunday schools, based on the Gospels of the Revised Common Lectionary.

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