The Desecularisation of the City: London s Churches, 1980 to the Present. Edited by. David Goodhew and Antony-Paul Cooper.

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1 The Desecularisation of the City: London s Churches, 1980 to the Present Edited by David Goodhew and Antony-Paul Cooper Section One: Introductory Questions Chapter One Table of Contents David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper The Desecularisation of the City: London s Churches, 1980 to the Present Section Two: Changes in London s Churches, 1980 to the Present Chapter Two Eric Kaufmann Demographic changes in London, 1980 onwards Chapter Three Peter Brierley The 2012 London Church Census Chapter Four Anthony-Paul Cooper Using Geo-Enriched Twitter Data to Uncover Hidden Church Populations Chapter Five Andrew Rogers Walking Down the Old Kent Road: New Black Majority Churches in the Borough of Southwark Chapter Six Colin Marchant New Churches in Newham, 1980 to 2015 Chapter Seven Alan Pigott The Decline of London Methodism, 1980 to the Present Section Three: Ethnic Diversity and London s Churches

2 Chapter Eight Babatunde Adedibu Mission from Africa: the Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in London, 1980 to the Present Chapter Nine Daniel Clark Brazilian churches in London, 1980 to the Present Day Chapter Ten Hugh Osgood Capital-Wide Missions and the Rise of London s Black-led Churches Chapter Eleven Robert Collins Russian Orthodoxy in London, 1980 to the Present Day Section Four: Denominational Shifts - the Historic Churches and the Newer Denominations Chapter Twelve William Kay & Sam Jeffrey London s New Churches: the Example of the New Frontiers Network, 1980 to the Present Day Chapter Thirteen Bob Jackson The Anglican Diocese of London, 1980 to the Present Chapter Fourteen Tim Thorlby Anglican Church Planting in the East End, c Chapter Fifteen Marion Bowman, Simon Coleman, John Jenkins and Tiina Sepp Visibly Different: Continuity and Change at Westminster Cathedral Section Five: the Historical and Sociological Contexts of London s Churches Chapter Sixteen

3 John Wolffe London s Churches: Taking the Long View Chapter Seventeen Grace Davie London s Churches: Sociological Perspectives Conclusion David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper Churches in a Global City

4 Contributors Revd Dr Babatunde Adedibu is Provost of the Redeemed Christian Bible College, Lagos, Nigeria. Dr Marion Bowman is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University. Dr Peter Brierley is former head of Christian Research and now runs Brierley Consulting. Dr Daniel Clark completed a Phd. with the University of Wales on the subject of Brazilian churches in West London. Professor Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor, Dept. for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Robert Collins is completing a Phd. on Russian Orthodoxy in Britain with Birkbeck College, London. Anthony-Paul Cooper is Research Fellow of the Centre for Church Growth Research at Cranmer Hall, St John s College, Durham University. Anthony-Paul is also a social researcher in the public sector. Prof. Grace Davie is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Exeter University Revd Dr David Goodhew is Director of Ministerial Studies, Cranmer Hall, St John s College, Durham University The Ven. Bob Jackson is retired Archdeacon of Walsall and visiting fellow of St John s College, Durham. Sam Jeffrey is writing a Phd. on the New Frontiers network of churches. Dr John Jenkins is a post-doctoral researchers for the Pilgrimage and England s Cathedrals Project, the Open University. Prof. Eric Kaufmann is Professor at Birkbeck College, London. Professor William Kay is Professor of Pentecostal Studies at the University of Chester. Revd Dr Colin Marchant is a retired Baptist Minister and past president of the Baptist Union and has lived and researched Newham for fifty years. The Revd Dr Hugh Osgood is the Free Churches Moderator and a President of Churches Together in England. Alan Pigott is Head of Statistics of the Methodist Church in Britain. Dr Andrew Rogers is Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London.

5 Dr Tiina Sepp is a post-doctoral researcher for the Pilgrimage and England s Cathedrals Project, the Open University Tim Thorlby is Development Director of the Centre for Theology in the Community, London. Prof John Wolffe is Professor of Religious Studies, the Open University.