‘Christians, out here?’ Encountering Street-Pastors in the post-secular spaces of the UK’s night-time economy

Urban Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 501-516

  Middleton, Jennie ^a   Yarwood, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

encounter; night time economy; post secular; religion; Street Pastors

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; DRINKING; ENCOUNTER RATE; ETHICS; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SECULAR VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84921376530     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013513646     Document Type: Article

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