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Industrial Mission history

A website for the recording of the history of the Industrial Mission movement

The aim: to promote understanding of Industrial Mission and to learn the lessons it has to teach us.

Objectives:

  • To locate and list the archives of Industrial Mission teams and attempt to ensure their safekeeping
  • To publish interviews with industrial chaplains
  • To encourage history-writing

Books

There is a considerable literature on the history of Industrial Mission. On this page we have begun a list of relevant books.

We would welcome suggestions for additions

 

Books

Bagshaw, Paul (1994), The Church Beyond the Church: Sheffield Industrial Mission 1944-1994, Sheffield: Industrial Mission in South Yorkshire

Brown, Malcolm and Ballard, Paul (2006) The Church and Economic Life: A documentary study: 1945 to the present, Epworth

Claringbull, Denis (1994), Front Line Mission: Ministry in the Market Place, The Canterbury Press

Henry Clark (1993), The Church under Thatcher, SPCK, London

Cuttell, Colin (1962), Ministry without Portfolio, Toc H, Foundry Press Ltd., Bedford

Erlander, Lillemor (1991), Faith in the World at Work: On the Theology of Work As Lived by the French Worker-Priests and British Industrial Mission, UPPSALA, Sweeden

Hewitt, Gordon (Ed) (1985), Strategist for the Spirit - Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield 1939-1962, Becket Publications

Hicks, Douglas A. (2003) Religion and the Workplace; Pluralism, SpiritualityLeadership, Cambridge University Press

Howard, Sue and Welbourn, David ((2004), The Spirit at Work Phenomenon, Azure

Kane, Margaret (1980), Gospel in Industrial Society, SCM Press, London

Mantle, John (2000), Britain's First Worker Priests, SCM Press, London

Northcott, Michael S. (1983) The Church and Secularisation, Verlag Peter Lang

Phipps, Simon ((1966), God on Monday, Hodder and Stoughton

Reindorp, Julian (2000), Equipping Christians at Work, Industrial Christian Fellowship, London

Rogerson, John W.(Ed) (1996), Industrial Mission in a Changing World; Papers from the Jubilee COnference of the Sheffield Industrial Mission,Sheffield Academic Press

Ross, Donald M. (1997), God it's Monday; Some reflections on the History of Industrial Mission, Saint Andrew Press

Siefer, Gregor (1964), The Church and Industrial Society; complete history of the Worker-Priests; and the present dilemma,Darton, Longman and Todd, London

Symanowski, Horst (1966), The Christian Witness in an Indsutrial Society, Collins, London

Wickham, E.R. Bishop of Middleton (1964), Encounter with Modern Society, Litterworth Press, London

Wickham, E.R. Bishop of Middleton (1957), Church and People in an Industrial City, Lutterworth Press, London

The Church's response to the Changing Industrial and Economic Order (1988), Industrial Mission - An Appraisal, Board for Social Responsibility

The Industrial Mission Association (2006), This is our Story, IMA London

Industrial Mission Associaltion, Changing Industrial Mission; Models and Hopes, Bene Print, All Saint's Church, Portsmouth

 

 

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