Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter One Establishing Truth from Participation and Distanciation in Empirical Theology (Jaco S. Dreyer) -- Chapter Two Truth and Method in Empirical Theology (Hans Schilderman) -- Chapter Three Religious Identity in Comparative Research (Johannes A. van der Ven) -- Chapter Four Epistemological Refl ections on the Connection between Ideas and Data in Empirical Research into Religion (Chris A.M. Hermans) -- Chapter Five Towards a Generic Model of Religious Ritual (Hans Schilderman) -- Chapter Six Comparative Empirical Research in Religion: Conceptual and Operational Challenges within Empirical Theology (Leslie J. Francis) -- PART TWO QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter Seven Adolescents' Views of Denominational Identities and of Dialogical Religious Education: An Empirical Study from Germany (Friedrich Schweitzer) -- Chapter Eight Ordinary Soteriology: A Qualitative Study (Ann Christie and Jeff Astley) -- Chapter Nine Narrative Competence and the Meaning of Life: Measuring the Quality of Life Stories in a Project on Care for the Elderly (Thijs Tromp and R. Ruard Ganzevoort) -- Chapter Ten The Theological Case for Christian Schools in E ngland and Wales: A Qualitative Perspective Listening to Female Alumnae (Tania ap Siôn, Leslie J. Francis and Sylvia Baker) -- PART THREE QUANTITATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter Eleven Faith or Morality? 'Theological Sediments' Depending on the Centrality, Content, and Social Context of Personal Religious Construct Systems (Stefan Huber and Constantin Klein) -- Chapter Twelve Socialisation and Empirical-Theological Models of the Trinity: A Study among Theology Students in the United Kingdom (Mark J. Cartledge).

Chapter Thirteen Religious Socialisation in the Family: A Multi-dimensional and Multi-level Perspective (Sabine Zehnder Grob, Christoph Morgenthaler and Christoph Käppler) -- Chapter Fourteen Apostolic Networks in Britain: Personality and Praxis (William K. Kay) -- Chapter Fifteen Xenophobia and Religious Pluralism: An Empirical Study among Youth in Germany (Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Ulrich Riegel) -- Chapter Sixteen A Church Divided by Theology and Practice: The Case of the Admission of Children to Communion in the Church in Wales (Keith Littler) -- List of Contributors -- Name index -- Subject index.