Profile and attitudes to facilities of visitors (other than for public worship) to rural churches (1417)

Type of Data: Profile and attitudes to facilities of visitors (other than for public worship) to rural churches (1417)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church of England)

Date: 1999

Geography: England and Wales

Sample Size: 12679

Population: Visitors to 165 rural Anglican churches

Keywords: Church attendance, churchgoing, tourism, visitors

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire

Collection Agency: Jeremy Martineau and Leslie John Francis

Sponsor: National Churches Tourism Group

Survey Instrument: Martineau and Francis, Rural Visitors, pp. 115-16

Published Source:

Jeremy Martineau and Leslie John Francis, Rural Visitors: A Parish Workbook for Welcoming Visitors in the Country Church, Stoneleigh Park: Acora Publishing, 2001

Keith Littler and Leslie John Francis, 'What Rural Churches Say to Non-Churchgoers', Rural Theology, Vol. 1, 2003, pp. 57-62

Keith Littler, Leslie John Francis and Jeremy Martineau, 'I Was Glad: Listening to Visitors to Country Churches', Rural Theology, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 53-60 and Rural Life and Rural Church: Theological and Empirical Perspectives, eds Leslie John Francis and Mandy Robbins, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2012, pp. 180-7

Keith Littler and Leslie John Francis, 'Ideas of the Holy: The Ordinary Theology of Visitors to Rural Churches', Rural Theology, Vol. 3, 2005, pp. 49-54

BRIN ID: 1417

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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