Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital Across the Generations

Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace shape family, work and civic life in a supposedly secular age.

Davies and Guest integrate, for the first time, sociological concepts of spiritual ...