Sample from Table of Contents: Foreword/Acknowledgements/Introduction; Chapter 1: The Rural Ministry Survey: Introduction, The research questionnaire, Data collection and analysis, The sample of rural clergy: personal details, The sample of rural clergy: work -re1ated issues, The sample of rural clergy: health issues, The sample of rural clergy: training and support, The churches: electoral roll and attendance numbers, The churches: baptisms, confirmations, weddings, wedding blessings and funerals, The churches: financial issues, Conclusion; Chapter 2: Understanding Stress and Stressors, Introduction, Stress and stressors defined, Stress as an internal response, Stimulus-based definitions of stress, Interactional and transactional definitions of stress, The measurement of stress and stressors, Physiological arousal, Life events, Daily hassles, The rural clergy stressor inventory and much more.
The Revd. Dr. Christine Brewster is a Visiting Research Fellow at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, Wales, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Wales, Bangor.
"What Dr. Brewster has done in this study is to demonstrate the international and ecumenical relevance of undertaking professionally designed and professionally conducted research among the clergy. Churches that fail to take their clergy seriously... are failing not only in their duty of care to those clergy, but also in their best advocacy of the ministry and mission to which they profess commitment." - Revd. Canon Professor Leslie J. Francis, Professor Religions and Education, University of Warwick. "The amount of information synthesis in this book is to be commended in the way it makes the complexity of the field easily accessible to the reader. The results from the new sample are presented clearly with a coherent and engaging narrative... This book should be read by clergy, parishioners, but most of all by those with pastoral responsibility for those clergy working in rural multi-parish benefices." - Dr: Mandy Robbins, Reader in Psychology Glyndwr University, Wales, UK.
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