The Editor: Peter Cruchley-Jones is a minister of the United Reformed Church in full time pastoral ministry in Cardiff (Wales). He is Missiology Tutor at St. Michael’s Church in Wales College, Cardiff and Honorary Research Associate of Cardiff University Theology & Religious Studies Department. He has also devised and led bible study for meetings of the World Council of Churches and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

• Contents: Werner Ustorf: Introduction – Martin D. Stringer: Chatting with Gran at her Grave: Ethnography and the Definition of Religion – Gwen Collins: What makes academics tick? – John Burgess: Detecting the Presence of God: Spirituality in a Birmingham church – John Hall: The demise of the institution - the rise of primal religious experience. Insights from twenty-first century youth congregations – Peter McGrail: Reforming Liturgy or Stripping Tradition? – Mark S. Hathorne: God’s City in Wolverhampton – Peter Cruchley-Jones: ‘Like a frog in water slowly being brought to boil?’ Listening for donkeys in the Church in Urban Britain – Peter Cruchley-Jones: Findings. One foot in the grave?

The Editor: Peter Cruchley-Jones is a minister of the United Reformed Church in full time pastoral ministry in Cardiff (Wales). He is Missiology Tutor at St. Michael’s Church in Wales College, Cardiff and Honorary Research Associate of Cardiff University Theology & Religious Studies Department. He has also devised and led bible study for meetings of the World Council of Churches and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

• Contents: Werner Ustorf: Introduction – Martin D. Stringer: Chatting with Gran at her Grave: Ethnography and the Definition of Religion – Gwen Collins: What makes academics tick? – John Burgess: Detecting the Presence of God: Spirituality in a Birmingham church – John Hall: The demise of the institution - the rise of primal religious experience. Insights from twenty-first century youth congregations – Peter McGrail: Reforming Liturgy or Stripping Tradition? – Mark S. Hathorne: God’s City in Wolverhampton – Peter Cruchley-Jones: ‘Like a frog in water slowly being brought to boil?’ Listening for donkeys in the Church in Urban Britain – Peter Cruchley-Jones: Findings. One foot in the grave?

The Editor: Peter Cruchley-Jones is a minister of the United Reformed Church in full time pastoral ministry in Cardiff (Wales). He is Missiology Tutor at St. Michael’s Church in Wales College, Cardiff and Honorary Research Associate of Cardiff University Theology & Religious Studies Department. He has also devised and led bible study for meetings of the World Council of Churches and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

• Contents: Werner Ustorf: Introduction – Martin D. Stringer: Chatting with Gran at her Grave: Ethnography and the Definition of Religion – Gwen Collins: What makes academics tick? – John Burgess: Detecting the Presence of God: Spirituality in a Birmingham church – John Hall: The demise of the institution - the rise of primal religious experience. Insights from twenty-first century youth congregations – Peter McGrail: Reforming Liturgy or Stripping Tradition? – Mark S. Hathorne: God’s City in Wolverhampton – Peter Cruchley-Jones: ‘Like a frog in water slowly being brought to boil?’ Listening for donkeys in the Church in Urban Britain – Peter Cruchley-Jones: Findings. One foot in the grave?