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Bishops, Wives and Children - Spiritual Capital Across the Generations (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,623
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Bishops, Wives and Children - Spiritual Capital Across the Generations (Hardcover, New Ed): Douglas J. Davies, Mathew Guest

Bishops, Wives and Children - Spiritual Capital Across the Generations (Hardcover, New Ed)

Douglas J. Davies, Mathew Guest

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Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace shape family, work and civic life in a supposedly secular age. Davies and Guest integrate, for the first time, sociological concepts of spiritual capital with anthropological ideas of gift-theory and, alongside theological themes, use these to illuminate how the religious professional functions in mediating tradition and fostering change. Motifs of distant prelates, managerially-minded fathers in God and rebellious clergy children are reconsidered in a critical light as new empirical evidence offers unique insights into how the clergy family functions as an axis of social power in an age incredulous to ecclesiastical hierarchy. Bishops, Wives and Children marks an important advance in the analysis of the spirituality of Catholic, Evangelical and Liberal leaders and their social significance within a distinctive Christian tradition and all it represents in wider British society.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Douglas J. Davies • Mathew Guest
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5485-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Christianity
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LSN: 0-7546-5485-0
Barcode: 9780754654858

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