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Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities
This book presents cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life. A major contribution of this edited collection signals that when religion is left out of social scientific analyses, it can result in incomplete analyses that conceal pathways to social inclusion and exclusion.
Women and Religion in the West
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? Women and Religion in the West addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization...
Keep You Forever
“I can't stop thinking about him, and we've been together for two hours. If two freaking hours with him can make me delirious, I'm not sure what spending a day with him might be like. It might result in oblivion.” Sixteen-year-old Lissa Mehra doesn’t care for life outside her busy city, Spring Park. She’s one week away from starting her much-awaited junior year at Park High alongside her childhood best friends when her parents drop the bomb—they’re leaving for a couple’s cruise across the oceans. Without her. Left with no choice but to move into her uncle’s house in a faraway hillside town called Juniper Hills, luxury-lover Lissa is nowhere near prepared for town life. What could happen in a small town in just six months? A lot. Suddenly, Lissa is bonding with her extended family, making new friends, working part-time at a café (who knew) and maybe, just maybe, she’s falling in love with green-eyed, English-accented bad boy, Asher Prince. Dive into the magic of Juniper Hills with this hilarious, swoon-worthy rollercoaster YA novel that is also a beloved Wattpad sensation.
Christianity and the University Experience
What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from any existing religious convictions, heightening the appeal of a rationalist secularism increasingly dominant in wider society. And yet Christianity remains highly visible on university campuses and continues to be a prominent identity marker in the lives of many students. Analysing over 4,000 responses to a national survey of students and nearly 100 interviews with students and those working with...
An Indian Affair
An Indian Affair is a tale of love, sex and sadness, as two couples get caught up in a love tryst, then face the consequences.
Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of gender and religion. Through varied perspectives, the chapters address three interrelated themes: religion as practice, the relationship between religious practice and religion as prescribed by formal religious institutions, and the feminization of religion in Europe.
Religion, Religious Ethics and Nursing
"[This] is a book that challenges you to step back and broaden your thinking about religion in general and religion in nursing...Nurses at all levels will appreciate the applications to nursing practice, theory, and research."--Journal of Christian Nursing "The Reverend Dr. Marsha Fowler and her colleagues have written a landmark book that will change and enlighten the discourse on religion and spirituality in nursing. The authors address the awkward silence on religion in nursing theory and education and with insightful scholarship move beyond the current level of knowledge and limited discourse on religion in nursing theory, education and practice. This book is path-breaking in that [it] g...
Spirit, Faith and Church
Contradictions are legion when it comes to women and spirituality. In Christian cultures, the worth of the female sex is highly ambivalent, since virginity and motherhood are construed respectively as badges of purity and fruitfulness, whilst the biological processes which underlie them are considered taboo or impure. Throughout history, women are in turn represented as inferior, defective creatures or as privileged ‘empty vessels’ in their relationship with the divine. This polarized conception of woman has influenced the way in which religious institutions, learned writers, or indeed women themselves consider the female personal and collective relationship with the supernatural, with t...
Good Girls, Good Sex
What happens when a woman's identities as a Christian and as an embodied sexual woman collide? What impact does a conventional Christian view of sexuality have on women's sexual lives? Through conversations with thirty-six Protestant women, Good Girls, Good Sex explores how both religious values and communities shape women's sexual experiences and the role of social class and race in this shaping. In their stories, the women reflect on how they handle conflicts between their religious views and their sexual desires, and how they satisfy those desires while simultaneously negotiating a conservative Christian message and more liberal secular messages. Sonya Sharma finds that, although the idea of the "good girl" is a common thread throughout the narratives, many of the women challenged the notion of "no sex before marriage" and saw their sexuality and insights into their church community as a means to challenge systems of patriarchy that persist in these spaces.
A Single Woman's Concerns and Struggles
A Single Woman’s Concerns and Struggles: Reversing the Perception of Exclusion in the Church in the Twenty-First Century and Beyondspeaks to the many single, separated, single parent, divorced, and widowed women who have and are experiencing concerns and struggles that may lead to perceptions of exclusion in the church and community. Each church holds various amounts of information from many sources that may assist single women in reversing the perception of exclusion, but making the best use of these sources and resources can make a big difference in the life of a single woman. Dr. Johnson provides insights into the care, concerns, struggles, and perceptions of exclusion and provides a mentoring guide in encouraging inclusion in the local church and community in the twenty-first century and beyond.
