Martin D. Stringer
Lecturer in Sociology/Anthropology of Religion Department of Theology
PUBLICATIONS
Books
On the Perception of Worship: An Ethnographic Study of Worship
in Four Christian Congregations in Manchester (Birmingham University Press, 1999)
(With E. Arweck) (eds.) Theorising Faith: The Insider/Outsider Problem and the Study
of Ritual. (Birmingham University Press, 2001)
Papers: Liturgy
'Adapting Our Worship' (Church Observer, Spring 1989, pp10-11)
'Liturgy and Anthropology, the History of a Relationship' (Worship, Vol 63, No 6,
November 1989, pp503-521)
'Whose Liturgy is it Anyway?' (Church Observer, Spring 1991, pp1-3)
'Situating Meaning in the Liturgical Text' (Bulletin of the John Rylands University
Library of Manchester, Vol 73, No 3, Autumn 1991, pp181-194)
'Antiquities of an English Liturgist: William Palmer's Use of Origins in
the Study of the English Liturgy' (Ephemerides Liturgicae, Vol 108, 1994,
pp146-156)
'Liturgy and Pastoral Care' (Contact, Vol 115, 1994, pp10-14)
‘Style against Structure: The Legacy of John Mason Neale for
Liturgical Scholarship’ (Studia Liturgica, Vol 27, No 2, 1997, pp235-245)
‘Text, Context and Performance: Hermeneutics and the Study of
Worship’ (Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol 53, No 3, 2000, pp365-379)
‘Celebrating the Massacre of Innocence?’ in K. A. Read & I.
Wollaston (eds.) Suffer the Little Children: Urban Violence and Sacred Space
(Birmingham University Press, 2001, pp143-156)
Papers: Anthropology
‘Towards a Situational Theory of Belief’ (Journal of
the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol XXVII, No 3, Michaelmas 1996, pp217-234)
‘On Reading Durkheim’ (Reviews in Religion and Theology, 1998/4
November, pp6-12)
‘Ethnicity, Politics and Transnational Islam: A Study of an International Sufi
Order: Discussion Document on Methodology’ (Internet at http://www.sellyoak.ac.uk/colleges.htm)
‘Rethinking Animism: Thoughts From the Infancy of Our Discipline’ (Journal
of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.) Vol 5, No 4, Dec 1999, pp 541- 556)
‘Discourse and the Ethnographic Study of Sufi Worship: Some Practical
Suggestions’ in A. Zhelyazkova & J. Nielsen (eds.) Ethnology of Sufi Orders:
Theory and Practice (CSIC & IMIR, 2001, pp 412-432)
‘Introduction, Theorising Faith’ in E. Arweck & M. D. Stringer (eds.) Theorising
Faith: The Insider/Outsider Problem and the Study of Ritual. (Birmingham University
Press, in press)
Papers: Sexuality
'Are We Really Breaking Free' (Reviews in Religion and Theology,
1996/3 August, pp8-15)
‘Expanding the Boundaries of Sex: An Exploration of Sexual Ethics after the Second
Sexual Revolution’ (Theology and Sexuality, No 7, Sept 1997, pp27-43)
‘In Memoriam Michael Vasey’ (Theology and Sexuality, No 13, Sept 2000,
pp9-14)
‘Of Gin and Lace: Sexuality, Liturgy and Identity among Anglo-Catholics in the
Mid-Twentieth Century’ (Theology and Sexuality, No 13, Sept 2000, pp35-54)
Papers: Inner-City Churches, Theology,
Religious Studies
'Manchester - United Amid Disintegration' (Act Now, No 23,
Spring 1991, pp10-14)
'So What is Religious Studies? Gerald Parsons' The Growth of Religious Diversity', (Reviews
in Religion and Theology, 1995/1 February, pp9-16)
'Theology and the Human City (The Human City Initiative)', (Christians in Public Life
Programme, Position Paper B17, Series 2, June 1995, reproduced in D. Clark (ed.) Changing
World, Unchanging Church? An Agenda for Christians in Public Life (Mowbray 1997)
pp94-96)
'Whither 'TRS'' (Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol 8, No 4,
2001 pp 384-390)
Church Based Courses & Reports
Poverty and Affluence: A Course for Groups (Greater
Manchester Church Action on Poverty, 1986)
Jesus Light of the World: An Advent Course for Churches (Church Literature
Association, 1992)
A Report on Marriage, based on a Day Conference given to Wakefield
Diocesan Church Union, 10th October 1991 (Ardwick Deanery Young Families Project,
1992)
A Report on Baptism, with an Outline for a Course for those involved
in Baptismal Ministries, and a Proposed Service for Baptism with the Eucharist (Ardwick
Deanery Young Families Project, 1992)
A Report on the Place of Schools within the Young Families Project (Ardwick
Deanery Young Families Project, 1993)
A Report on the Nature of the Congregation in the Inner-City
(Ardwick Deanery Young Families Project, 1993)
A Report on Language (Ardwick Deanery Young Families Project,
1993)
A Report on Worship (Ardwick Deanery Young Families Project,
1993)
Final Report of the Ardwick Deanery Young Families Project (Ardwick
Deanery Young Families Project, 1993)
Hope in Highgate, A Lent Course for the Churches of Highgate,
Birmingham (Churches Together in Highgate, 1997)
Report on a Feasibility Study in the Perry Hall/Perry Beeches Area of
Bimingham for the Methodist Church (Handsworth Circuit of the Methodist Church, 2000)
