"This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practices. The chapters cover Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist contexts as well as newer spiritual movements. The contributors examine prayer and ritual practices and familial, educational, and ritual spaces and relationships in a variety of cultural settings. The volume reflects on the ways in which women subvert traditional or patriarchal religious practices and spaces, both problematizing and expanding existing notions of 'religious practice'. It also touches on research itself as a form of spiritual and academic practice, considering ways in which women challenge androcentric modes of research as well asways in which the subject of research - in this case, female faith - may challenge the researcher's convictions and practice. Blending case studies with empirical research, this book will be an outstanding resource to theologians and researchers interested in Practical Theology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Religion, and Anthropology"--
This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practices.
The chapters cover Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist contexts as well as newer spiritual movements. The contributors examine prayer and ritual practices and familial, educational and ritual spaces and relationships in a variety of cultural settings. The volume reflects on the ways in which women subvert traditional or patriarchal religious practices and spaces, both problematising and expanding existing notions of religious practice. It also touches on research itself as a form of spiritual and academic practice, considering ways in which women challenge androcentric modes of research as well as ways in which the subject of research in this case, female faith may challenge the researchers convictions and practice.
Blending case studies with empirical research, this book will be an outstanding resource to theologians and researchers interested in Practical Theology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Religion and Anthropology.
This book explores female faith practices, blending case studies with empirical, qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practices.
Introduction Nicola Slee, Dawn Llewellyn, Lindsey Taylor-Gutharz, and
Kim Wasey Part I: Reflexivity and Research
1. Inhabiting the Role: A
Retrospective Reflexive Review from a Viewpoint of Lived Experience Grace
Thomas
2. Women and the Church: Challenges in Researching Womens Religiosity
in Poland Anna Szwed
3. Diving in: Research as a Journey Towards
Transformation Clare Herbert Part II: Space and Identity
4. Off-roading: How
Do Women Navigate the Journey Towards a Healthy Sexuality After Choosing to
Leave Evangelical Purity Culture? Lindsay Stewart
5. Exploring Expressions of
Femininity Through the Reported Rituals and Practices of the Red Tent
Madeleine Castro
6. Autoethnographic Perspectives on Muslim Womens Lives
Online Renasha Khan Part III: Food and Fabric
7. Transmission, Mimesis, and
Gender: Jewish Womens Kashrut Practices Lindsey Taylor-Gutharz
8.
Negotiating Christening: Mothers, Family and Folk Religion' Allison Fenton
9. Crafting Identity: The Spiritual Formation of Women in Prayer Shawl
Ministries Donna Bowman Part IV: Families and Formation
10. Mothers in
Newfrontiers: Charismatic spirituality, Motherhood and the Christian
Tradition Claire Williams 11.She Taught Me How to Do It Properly: Religious
Practices in Muslim Sister Relationships Sonya Sharma Part V: Womens Work
12. Does Religious Practice Increase Levels of Economic Inactivity Among
British Muslim Women? A Mixed Methods Examination Asma Khan
13. Apostolic
till the Very End: The Contribution of Older Roman Catholic Sisters
Experience of Ageing to the Evolving Identity of Womens Religious Life
Catherine Sexton
14. Looking Back on a Life of Faith: Qualitative Empirical
Research with Belgian Missionary Sisters Jane McBride with Annemie Dillen.
Bibliography Index
Nicola Slee is Research Professor at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham, UK, and Professor of Feminist Practical Theology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Dawn Llewellyn is Associate Professor in Religion and Gender at the University of Chester, UK.
Kim Wasey is Principal of Open College at the Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry in Manchester, UK.
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, UK, and a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies.
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