Demographic background and connections with and sense of belonging to local churches and communities of attenders at harvest festival services (2808)

Type of Data: Demographic background and connections with and sense of belonging to local churches and communities of attenders at harvest festival services (2808)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church of England)

Date: 2007, autumn

Geography: Local survey. Church of England Diocese of Worcester

Sample Size: 1454

Population: Adults attending harvest festival services in 27 rural Anglican churches

Keywords: Belonging, Bible, biblical literalism, Cana in Galilee, Christianity, church attendance, churchgoing, community involvement, congregational involvement, countryside, creation, God, good Christian, harvest festivals, Jesus Christ, pastoral care, prayer, religious festivals, self-assessed religiosity, self-assessed spirituality, social capital, traditional hymns, traditional language, water into wine, world faiths, worship

Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire

Collection Agency: David Stuart Walker

Published Source:

David Stuart Walker, 'The Social Significance of Harvest Festivals in the Countryside: An Empirical Enquiry among those who Attend', Rural Theology, Vol. 7, 2009, pp. 3-16 and Rural Life and Rural Church: Theological and Empirical Perspectives, eds Leslie John Francis and Mandy Robbins, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2012, pp. 266-80

Leslie John Francis, David Stuart Walker and Mandy Robbins, 'The Cana in Galilee Phenomenon: Influences on Biblical Literalism among Rural Anglicans Today', Rural Theology, Vol. 7, 2009, pp. 127-32

David Stuart Walker, 'The Religious Beliefs and Attitudes of Rural Anglican Churchgoers: Weekly and Occasional Attenders', Rural Theology, Vol. 8, 2010, pp. 159-72

David Stuart Walker, Leslie John Francis and Mandy Robbins, 'You Don't Have to Go to Church to Be a Good Christian: The Implicit Religion of Rural Anglican Churchgoers Celebrating Harvest', Implicit Religion, Vol. 13, 2010, pp. 319-25

David Stuart Walker, 'Personal Prayer, Church Attendance and Social Capital among Rural Churchgoers: Quantitative Empirical Methods as a Tool for Mission and Ministry', Rural Theology, Vol. 9, 2011, pp. 39-47

David Stuart Walker, 'Marks of Mission and Ways of Belonging: Shaping the Anglican Agenda for Occasional Churchgoers in the Countryside', Journal of Anglican Studies, Vol. 9, 2011, pp. 100-16

BRIN ID: 2808

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Posted by: Clive D. Field

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