R Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 22089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2190-4802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Short notices
Interests, beliefs, experience and perceptions shape tolerance towards impacts of recovering predators
The modification of landscapes is increasing the interface between humans and wildlife, while conflicts concerning predator impacts on human activities persist. Some previously persecuted but now protected predator species are experiencing recovery and range expansion. Tolerance is considered essential for achieving coexistence between humans and wildlife; however, its conceptualisation remains unresolved. Little is known about tolerance in the c…
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Two theological critics of Honest to God
This article looks critically at the arguments of two of Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God 's most formidable theological critics - Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Professor Eric Mascall
Temple and Tutu: Speaking Truth to Power
A comparison of attempts by Archbishops William Temple and Desmond Tutu to shape values within a pluralist society, with a particular focus on Temple's Christianity and Social Order
Raimon Panikkar's complete works: Part 2
Timothy Radcliffe, Alive in God: A Christian Imagination; Bruno Cadoré, With Him: Listening to the Underside of the World
Raimon Panikkar's complete works
The Liquidation of the Church
Liam Jerrold Fraser, Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation: Uncovering the Secret Sympathy
Transcendence and freely chosen constraints
Four areas that can evoke a sense of transcendence are explored - music, marriage, intellectual discipline and worship - and affinities (and differences) are traced between religious and non-religious responses to the first three. Worship, however, is seen as especially distinctive for those who are religious
Christiane Alpers, A Politics of Grace: Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context; Daniel Minch, Eschatological Hermeneutics: The Theological Core of Experience and Our Hope for Salvation
The ‘Empty’ Church Revisited
This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred year…
Marion L. S. Carson, Setting the Captives Free: The Bible and Human Trafficking
Robert W. Heimburger, God and the Illegal Alien: United States Immigration Law and a Theology of Politics
Keith Ward, Love Is His Meaning: Understanding the Teaching of Jesus
Fadi Daou and Nayla Tabbara, Divine Hospitality: A Christian-Muslim Conversation
Nick Spencer, The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable
Cult books revisited: Jacques Ellul's The Presence of the Kingdom
An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Jacques Ellul's classic book The Presence of the Kingdom, now available in a new translation
Cult books revisited: Joseph Fletcher’s Situation Ethics
This is the first article of new series for Theology on 'Cult books revisited'. Written in this instance by the Editor, it re-evaluates Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics, setting it into context and assessing its strengths and weaknesses
Congregational Life
The rapidly growing discipline of Congregational Studies, which draws on insights from across a number of different academic field, offers a particularly interesting and relatively dispassionate way of understanding and comparing different forms of congregational life from a detailed analysis of the lived experience of communities so as to develop what has been called a congregational ecology. Congregational life displays elements of social capit…
Siobhán Dowling Long and John F.A. Sawyer, The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More
Douglas Ellory Pett, The Healing Tradition of the New Testament
Peter Webster, Archbishop Ramsey: The Shape of the Church
Edward Schillebeeckx, The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx , 11 vols, Bloomsbury T&T Clark: London, 2014; 9780567417237 etc., £600.00/$935.00 (hbk)
Unspeakable Inequalities: Post Feminism, Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, and the Repudiation of Sexism among Cultural Workers
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 2014
Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain
The understanding and interpretation of the presumed "secularization" of Britain and other European nations is clouded by a lack of adequate information regarding the substance and timing of religious change. This paper represents the first systematic effort to collect and analyze existing survey data on religious belief in Britain from the late 1930s to the present. Overall, the results show an increase in general scepticism about the existence …
Theology and Sociology: A Reader
Section 1 Classical studies: Luther's conception of the Calling, Max Weber Prophets and routinisation of charisma, Max Weber Theology and egoistic suicide, Emile Durkheim Churches and sects, Ernst Troeltsch The churches of the disinherited, H. Richard Niebuhr Theology and sociology of knowledge, Karl Mannheim. Section 2 Implications for theological studies: Sociological and theological perspectives, Peter L. Berger Sociology and theology: alienat…
Public Theology and Music
This article argues that music may be an effective but under-explored metaphor for public theology. Specifically music can act as a helpful metaphor for theologians seeking to respond to three dominant criticisms of public theology, namely: that theology is too particularistic to be relevant to public discourse; that theology (and religion more widely) is harmful and dangerous especially after 9/11; that theology offers nothing that is objective …
"A Response to Steve Bruce's "Praying Alone
This article argues that neither Steve Bruce's theory of secularisation nor Grace Davie's theory of voluntary organisations are needed to explain British attitudes to religious belief and practice
OMB Finalizes Rules on Data Sharing
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Sociologists and Theologians: A Comparison
This article analyses various ways in which the work of theologians and sociologists can be compared. Recent developments in both disciplines make it difficult to distinguish clearly between theologians who are increasingly interested in social structures and those sociologists who are interested in theology as a cognitive discipline. There are similarities between them in that both show methodological diversity, both lack agreed definitions, bot…
The Suspect Approach to Christology
Incarnation and Atonement
A Comment
Theology of the Non-stipendiary Ministry
Prophecy in a Socially Determined Church
Films for Development
Television for Children in India
The separation of lysergide (LSD) from related ergot alkaloids and its identification in forensic science casework samples
Theology and Sociology: A Reader
Section 1 Classical studies: Luther's conception of the Calling, Max Weber Prophets and routinisation of charisma, Max Weber Theology and egoistic suicide, Emile Durkheim Churches and sects, Ernst Troeltsch The churches of the disinherited, H. Richard Niebuhr Theology and sociology of knowledge, Karl Mannheim. Section 2 Implications for theological studies: Sociological and theological perspectives, Peter L. Berger Sociology and theology: alienat…
Sociologists and Theologians: A Comparison
This article analyses various ways in which the work of theologians and sociologists can be compared. Recent developments in both disciplines make it difficult to distinguish clearly between theologians who are increasingly interested in social structures and those sociologists who are interested in theology as a cognitive discipline. There are similarities between them in that both show methodological diversity, both lack agreed definitions, bot…
Deducibility and Decidability
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Deducibility and Decidability. By R. R. Rockingham Gill. (Hampshire: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1990. Pp. viii + 161. Price £35.00.) W.D. Hart W.D. Hart University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 163, April 1991, Pages 242–243, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219597 Published: 01 April 1991
The Hunger of the Heart: Reflections on the Confessions of Augustine
Journal Article The Hunger of the Heart: Reflections on the Confessions of Augustine, edited by Donald Capps and James E. Dittes. West Lafayette, IN: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1990, xxii + 352 pp. $12.00 Get access Robin Gill Robin Gill University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org…
Sociology and Liturgy: Re-Presentations of the Holy
A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity
Journal Article A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity, by Peter L. Berger. New York: Free Press, 1992, x + 218 pp. $22.95 Get access Robin Gill Robin Gill University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 98–99, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712186 Published: 01 March 1994
Fenn, Richard K. 1997 . The End of Time: Religion, Ritual, and the Forging of the Soul , London: SPCK.
Fenn, Richard K. 1997 . The End of Time: Religion, Ritual, and the Forging of the Soul , London: SPCK
Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain
The understanding and interpretation of the presumed "secularization" of Britain and other European nations is clouded by a lack of adequate information regarding the substance and timing of religious change. This paper represents the first systematic effort to collect and analyze existing survey data on religious belief in Britain from the late 1930s to the present. Overall, the results show an increase in general scepticism about the existence …
Churchgoing and Christian Ethics
Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book, first published in 1999, examines evidence gathered from social attitude surveys about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attit…
OMB Finalizes Rules on Data Sharing
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
"A Response to Steve Bruce's "Praying Alone
This article argues that neither Steve Bruce's theory of secularisation nor Grace Davie's theory of voluntary organisations are needed to explain British attitudes to religious belief and practice
Living the Christian Story: The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics
Whose Theology? Which Theology
This is a response to Gareth Jones's critique of Changing Worlds, arguing that while this critique largely misunderstands the approach taken in the book, it does raise important questions about the prospect of war in the modern world. Crucial differences are identified in the use of theological rhetoric as a means of resolving differences about the legitimacy of war in the modern world
Sociological and Environmental Factors Causing Stress Among Women and Fighting Techniques Used
Study was aimed to isolate the sociological and environmental factors causing stress and different stress management techniques used by 75 working and 75 nonworking women of Ludhiana. Results showed that working women were significantly more stressed. Highest-ranking social pressure was ‘unexpected guests’ (as felt by working women) followed by ‘compulsory socialization’ as disclosed by both the categories of respondents. All the respondents agre…
The 'Empty' Church Revisited
Journal Article The ‘Empty’ Church Revisited, by Robin Gill. London: Ashgate, 2004, 264pp.; $99.95 USD (cloth), $29.95 USD (paper) Get access Grace Davie Grace Davie University of Exeter, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Page 324, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153103 Published: 01 October 2005
Public Theology and Music
This article argues that music may be an effective but under-explored metaphor for public theology. Specifically music can act as a helpful metaphor for theologians seeking to respond to three dominant criticisms of public theology, namely: that theology is too particularistic to be relevant to public discourse; that theology (and religion more widely) is harmful and dangerous especially after 9/11; that theology offers nothing that is objective …
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