Martin D. Stringer is Professor of Liturgical and Congregational Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also Director of the Education in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, UK, and is author of A Sociological History of Christian Worship (2005).

"...draws on several interesting ethnographic studies of the 'religious' lives of ordinary people to illustrate his claim that the elementary form of the religious life is situational, mundane, and concerned with helping people cope with the ordinary problems of day-to-day living." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, November 2009"

• Forward: Chatting to Gran at her Grave; 1. On Defining Religion; 2. On Ethnography; 3. Of Requiems and Reincarnation; 4. Of Graveyards and Kitchens; 5. Of Star Signs and Soap Operas; 6. On Gender; 7. On the Elementary Form of Religious Life; Bibliography; Index.

Martin D. Stringer is Professor of Liturgical and Congregational Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also Director of the Education in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, UK, and is author of A Sociological History of Christian Worship (2005).

"...draws on several interesting ethnographic studies of the 'religious' lives of ordinary people to illustrate his claim that the elementary form of the religious life is situational, mundane, and concerned with helping people cope with the ordinary problems of day-to-day living." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, November 2009"

• Forward: Chatting to Gran at her Grave; 1. On Defining Religion; 2. On Ethnography; 3. Of Requiems and Reincarnation; 4. Of Graveyards and Kitchens; 5. Of Star Signs and Soap Operas; 6. On Gender; 7. On the Elementary Form of Religious Life; Bibliography; Index.

Martin D. Stringer is Professor of Liturgical and Congregational Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also Director of the Education in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, UK, and is author of A Sociological History of Christian Worship (2005).

"...draws on several interesting ethnographic studies of the 'religious' lives of ordinary people to illustrate his claim that the elementary form of the religious life is situational, mundane, and concerned with helping people cope with the ordinary problems of day-to-day living." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, November 2009"

• Forward: Chatting to Gran at her Grave; 1. On Defining Religion; 2. On Ethnography; 3. Of Requiems and Reincarnation; 4. Of Graveyards and Kitchens; 5. Of Star Signs and Soap Operas; 6. On Gender; 7. On the Elementary Form of Religious Life; Bibliography; Index.