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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Natalie Watson of SCM Press for her kind invitation to write this book. The unstinting support and patience of friends and family is also much appreciated. Friends from the ‘Greggie’ – to whom this book is dedicated – have proved a special source of refreshment and welcome distraction through the course of its writing. As with all of my projects, the unqualified positivity and implacable encouragement of my wife, D­ebbie, leaves me with debts I can never pay. Mention should also be made of the undergraduate and postgraduate students whose engagement with my teaching of the sociology of religion has both informed its development and refined its focus. While the words and responsibility are mine, many of the questions this book addresses are theirs.