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In this pioneering overview of city church literatures, Hartley presents 18,500 citations, half of them annotated, covering 1800 to 1990, from the industrial revolution to the onset of counter-urbanization and the emergence of post-manufacturing cities. Access is by author, subject (including names of cities), and year of publication. With introduction.

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...the most exhaustive bibliography on urbanism and urban ministry ever produced....fascinating....destined to be a classic resource. * Urban Advance * ...recommended for religious collections...no other publication comes close to approaching its dimensions. * CHOICE * Libraries that support a community of scholars working on urban mission will feel that they cannot avoid purchasing these three volumes....For the more general theological library, they are indispensible. * Theological Book Review * The modern world is urban and this bibliography is a big window accessing religion in that world....This is a resource that ought to be in every university and seminary library in the English speaking world....invaluable. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion * It takes enormous energy, even in the day of computers, to compile bibliographies of this scope. If would take even more energy to try to make sense of church and city without aids like this one. Whoever wants to tell the story of the church, plan for its future, live in and with the city, or determine a mission for the church in it, can find no more convenient means of access to the literature than this two-volume work. -- From the Foreward by Martin E. Marty [Hartley] is a born classifier, an experienced scholar, a sagacious introducer, and a person of vision and perspective....His book summaries are not only apt but engaging. * The Christian Century * ...one of the most welcome pieces of research that has been produced in several decades. -- David J. Frenchak This is a treasure of resources. -- George W. Webber The scope and breadth of this work is impressive and represents the first comprehensive effort to bring the literature of the subject area under bibliographic control....it is important to scholars and students and is key resource for religion collections in colleges, universities, and seminaries. * Missiology: An International Review * ...a pioneering piece of research...the major divisions of the citation are grouped around successive annual years, not simply alphabetically by author....Practitioners ought to encourage local libraries to obtain the set. * Urban Mission * ...will be greatly appreciated by historians, sociologists, clerics, city planners, and others. * American Reference Books Annual *

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Loyde H. Hartley (BA, Otterbein College; BD, United Theological Seminary; PhD, Emory University), former dean of Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is Professor and Director of the Research Center in Religion and Society there and author of Understanding Church Finances (1984), A Study of Clergy Morale (1980), and several articles and research reports related to city ministry.

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