This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society.
Malcolm Torry is an honorary research fellow at the London School of Economics and Roehampton University, UK. Previously he worked in the full-time ministry of the Church of England for thirty-four years, and is the author of Managing Religion, published by Palgrave.
Introduction.- Chapter 1 Religion and society are institutional.- Chapter 2 Mediating institutions between religion and the workplace.- Chapter 3 Mediating institutions in residential communities in the Thames Gateway.- Chapter 4 Some more mediating institutions in residential communities.- Chapter 5 Mediating institutions between religion and civil society.- Chapter 6 Mediating institutions – a task for the Church.- Chapter 7 Signposts towards the City of God.- Postscript.- Appendix: Relationships and sexuality.