Bishops, Wives and Children

The Revd Professor Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion at the Department of Theology, Durham University, UK and has, for the past three years, been Director of the 'Clergy and British Society' project. He has published widely on a variety of topics, including the rural church, Mormonism and pastoral theology. Among his many distinguished volumes are Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (1997); The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory (2000); Anthropology and Theology (2002); An Introduction to Mormonism (2003), and Church and Religion in Rural England, (co-author, with Charles Watkins and Michael Winter; 1991). Dr Mathew Guest is Lecturer in Theology and Society at the Department of Theology, Durham University, UK. From 2001-2004, he worked as Senior Research Associate to the 'Clergy and British Society' Project, taking particular responsibility for overseeing and managing the collection and analysis of empirical data. He has also published widely on contemporary British evangelicalism and on Christianity in general. He has co-authored Modern Christianity: Reviewing its Place in Britain Today (with Douglas Davies) (2000), co-edited Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context (with Karin Tusting and Linda Woodhead) (2004), and is the author of Evangelical Identity and Contemporary Culture: A Congregational Study in Innovation (forthcoming).