Publications on church growth research

Recent Publications

Goodhew, D. & Cooper, A. P. [Eds.] (2018). The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

Goodhew, D. & Cooper, A. P. (2018). “London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present” In The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present, edited by David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 3-38.

Cooper, A. P. (2018). “Using geotagged Twitter data to uncover hidden church populations” In The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present, edited by David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 134-147. 

Cooper, A. P. & Goodhew, D. (2018). “Warehouses, Garages and Pubs: New Church Buildings in Britain, 1980 to the Present”. The Chapels Society Journal, 3, 81-90. 

Cooper, A. P. & Goodhew, D. (2017). “‘Resacralising’ Secular Space: New Churches in a Northern City, 1980 to 2012”. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(3), 495-511.

Cooper, A. P. (2017). “Assessing the possible relationship between the sentiment of church-related tweets and church growth”. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 46(1), 37-49. 

Goodhew, D. & Barward-Symmons, R. (2015). “New Churches in the North East”. Durham University Research Report, Durham, UK. 

Goodhew, D. [Ed.] (2015). Towards a Theology of Church Growth. Ashgate, Farnham, UK.

Cooper, A. P. (2014). “Unwrapping Camden’s church tweeters: A small-scale thematic study of Twitter data”. In K. Woodfield [Ed.], “Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries”. eBook, NatCen Social Research, London, UK. 

Holmes, J. & Kautzer, B. (2013). “Cathedrals, greater churches and the growth of the church”. Durham University Research Report, Durham University, UK.

Church Army’s Research Unit. (2013). “An analysis of fresh expressions of church and church plants begun in the period 1992 to 2012”. Durham University Research Report, Durham University, UK.

Goodhew, D., Kautzer, B. & Moffatt, J. (2013). “Amalgamations, team ministries and the growth of the church”. Durham University Research Report, Durham University, UK.

Goodhew, D. [Ed.] (2012). “Church Growth in Britain: 1980 to the Present Day“ Ashgate, Farnham, UK.