Centre for the Study of Modern Christianity

19/12/2022

Early details about the 1st International Workshop on AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI‑HuSo’23) are now available here: https://fedcsis.org/sessions/itbs/ai-huso

CSMC's Dr Anthony-Paul Cooper will be a technical session chair at the event which will take place 17-20 September 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.

Submission and sign-up details coming soon!

This workshop is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioral-science pers...

18/03/2022

Delighted to announce that 'Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective', which CSMC's Anthony-Paul Cooper wrote recently with Erkki Sutinen, has been shortlisted for the International Society for Science and Religion’s 2022 Book Prize. Winners to be announced later this year.

The book is available for purchase at: https://t.co/hbu5R27EZQ

01/01/2022

Having operated as the Centre for Church Growth Research (CCGR) since 2012, today we re-launch as the Centre for the Study of Modern Christianity (CSMC), reflecting our broader research interests/projects. This promises to be another busy year!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

02/12/2021

Exciting news: In Jan '22 the Centre for Church Growth Research will re-brand and re-launch as the Centre for the Study of Modern Christianity.

This reflects our broadening research interests over the past 9 years; our current research projects and publications continue at pace!

30/08/2021

CCGR's Ant Cooper has recently co-authored a new book, 'Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective' with Professor Erkki Sutinen from University of Turku:

https://youtu.be/5xmwkEStOU8

The book is available now for purchase online: https://t.co/yJ0Ht973tz (and in other great book stores!).

Durham University Emerald Publishing Cranmer Hall St. John's College, Durham University

'Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective' (Emerald Publishing) is available for purchase now:https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Digital-Th...

18/06/2021

New research by CCGR's Ant Cooper and a team of co-authors from Finland and Namibia explores the reconfiguration of social, digital and physical presence. Freely available at:

01/12/2020

Missio Dei in a Digital Age, a new edited volume featuring a chapter by CCGR's Ant Cooper, is available for pre-order now:

Buy Missio Dei in a Digital Age from SCM Press

02/04/2020

CCGR's Ant Cooper (with Emmanual Awuni Kolog and Erkki Sutinen) has today published a new journal article on the use of machine learning to automate the qualitative coding of church-related tweets. Available here:

Promotes critical investigation into all aspects of the empirical study of contemporary religion

21/11/2019

New book, Digital Theology: a Computer Science Perspective, by Ant Cooper and Prof Errki Sutinen, to be published by Emerald in autumn 2020.

21/03/2019

A few pictures from the event at St Paul's Cathedral last week, where CCGR's David Goodhew and Ant Cooper presented findings from new book 'The Desecularisation of the City' at a church leaders' event with Bishop Sarah Mullally.

The book is available in paperback on Amazon here:

https://t.co/EODy6AQm0C

30/10/2018

Desecularisation of the City is available in paperback here:

Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London's churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980. The Desecularisation of the City provides the...