Urban Theology & Religion

 

Church reports
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Priority Areas, Faith in the City. A Call to Church and Nation, CHP 1985
Archbishop’s Advisory Group on UPAs, Living Faith in the City, General Synod 1990
Bishops’ Advisory Group on UPAs, Staying in the City, CHP 1995
Commission on Urban Life and Faith, Faithful Cities. A call for celebration vision and justice, MPH 2006
The Cities - A Methodist Report, NCH Action for Children 1997

 

Urban Theology & Practice

Michael Northcott ed., Urban Theology. A Reader, Cassell 1998
John Atherton, Marginalization, SCM 2003
Mary Beasley, Mission on the Margins, Lutterworth 1997
Nicholas Bradbury, City of God?, SPCK 1990
Stephen Burns, Worship in Context: Liturgical Theology, Children and the City, Epworth 2006
Liz Carnelly ‘Prophecy, Race and Eastenders’ in Modern Believing 36/1995
Ian Duffield ed. Urban Christ. Responses to John J. Vincent, UTU 1997
David Ford ‘Faith in the Cities. Corinth and the Modern City’ in Colin Gunton and Daniel Hardy eds., On Being the Church, T&T Clark 1989
Michael Eastman and Steve Latham, Urban Church, SPCK 2004
Rod Garner, Facing the City, Epworth 2004
Timothy Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment. Justice, Empowerment, Redemption, CUP 2002
Laurie Green, Power to the Powerless, Marshalls 1989; Urban Ministry and the Kingdom of God, SPCK 2003
Anthony Harvey, ed., Theology in the City - A Theological Response to Faith in the City, SPCK 1989
Kenneth Leech, Through our long exile, DLT 2001; Doing Theology in Altab Ali Park,  2006
Ann Morisy, Beyond the Good Samaritan. Community Ministry & Mission, Mowbrays 1997
John Proctor Urban God BRF 2002
Chris Rowland and John Vincent eds., Liberation Theology UK, UTU 1995; Gospel from the City, UTU 1998; Liberation Spirituality, UTU 1999; The Bible and Practice, UTU 2001
Hilary Russell, Poverty close to home-A Christian Understanding, Mowbrays 1995
Peter Sedgwick ed., God in the City, Mowbrays 1995
Peter Selby, Grace and Mortgage, DLT 1997
Philip Shedrake, Spaces for the Sacred, SCM Press 2001
Norman Shanks, ‘Mission and Urbanisation’ in Theology in Scotland, March 1996
Michael Simmons ed. Street Credo. Churches in the Community, Lemos & Crane 2000
Tim Stratford, Worship: Window of the Urban Church, 2006
Malcolm Torry ed. The Parish, Canterbury Press 2004
John Vincent, Hope from the City, Epworth 2000
Andrew Walker ed. Spirituality in the City, SPCK 2005
Graham Ward, Cities of God, Routledge 2000

 

Religion and urban change in Britain
Paul Chambers, Religion, Secularization and Social Change: Congregational Studies in a Post-Christian Society, UWP2005
Kim Knott, Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis, Equinox 2005

 

Racism and ethnicity in Britain (including black theology)
Joe Aldred, Respect. Understanding Caribbean British Theology, Epworth 2005
Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Cultures, UCL Press 1996
Robert Beckford, Jesus is Dread- Black Theology and Culture in Britain, DLT 1998; Dread and Pentecostal – A political theology for the black church in Britain, SPCK 2000; God of the Rahtid: redeeming rage, DLT 2001; God and the gangs, DLT 2004; Jesusdub, Routledge 2006
Roswith Gerloff, A Plea for Black British Theologies, Peter Lang 1992
Ken Leech, Struggle in Babylon, Sheldon 1989
Tariq Modood, Richard Berthoud et al., Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage. The Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. London: Policy Studies Institute 1997
Lord Parekh, The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, Profile 2000
Kwesi Owusu, Black British Culture and Society - A Text Reader, Routledge 2000
Anthony Reddie, Nobodies to Somebodies: A Practical Theology for Education and Liberation, Epworth 2003; Dramatizing Theologies: A Participative Approach to Black God-Talk, Equinox 2006
John Wilkinson, The Church in Black and White, St Andrews 1994

 

Europe
Martien Brintsmen and Hugo Vlug, Faith in the City- Fifty years of the WCC in a secularised western context, Meinema-Zoetermeer/WCC 1998
Seppo Kjellberg, Urban Ecotheology, International Books, 2000
Eneglebert Kerkhoff et al. Citykirchenarbeit, Hochschule Niererrhein 2004

 

Urban theology & ministry in an international perspective
Ray Bakke, A Theology as Big as the City, IVP 1997
Andrew Davey, ‘Globalization as challenge and opportunity in urban mission. An outlook from London’. International Review of Mission, October 1999
Andrew Davey, Urban Christianity and Global Order. Theological Resources for an Urban Future, SPCK 2001/ Hendrickson 2002.
Laurie Green, The Impact of the Global: An Urban Theology, New City UTU 2000
Bob Linthicum, City of God, City of Satan - A Biblical Theology of the Urban Church, Zondervan 1991; Signs of Hope in the City, MARC USA 1996
Bruce J. Nicholls, and Beulah R. Wood, (eds) Sharing Good News with the Poor, World Evangelical Fellowship / Paternoster Press 1996
Tesunao Yamamori, Bryant Myers and Kenneth Luscombe, Serving with the Urban Poor, World Vision/Marc 1999

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