Outputs (9)

Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK (2023)
Journal Article

In the UK, the vast majority of people accept abortion, whether or not they are religious. Holding an absolutist anti-abortion view is out of line with the general population. The overwhelming majority of anti-abortion activists are motivated by cons... Read More about Raising ‘True Believers’: Anti-Abortion ‘Education’ for Primary Children in the UK.

Gendered Violence, Religion and UK-Based Anti-Abortion Activism (2022)
Journal Article

The United Nations view access to abortion as a fundamental human right. Yet increasingly in the UK, religiously-motivated activists undertake public displays opposing abortion, often outside abortion clinics, and precipitated through international c... Read More about Gendered Violence, Religion and UK-Based Anti-Abortion Activism.

Navigating Youth Transitions as a Buddhist: Privilege, reflexivity and sexuality (2021)
Journal Article

This article focuses on how young Buddhists (aged between 18 and 25, living in the UK, who typically had not been raised Buddhist) utilised reflexivity as a strategy to navigate youth transitions. Participants’ decision-making was premised on Buddhis... Read More about Navigating Youth Transitions as a Buddhist: Privilege, reflexivity and sexuality.

Understanding young adult Muslim and Christian attitudes toward queer identity: A Canadian and UK comparison (2021)
Journal Article

This article utilises data from two parallel mixed-methods projects to examine attitudes to queer identity among heterosexual Muslim and Christian young adults aged between 18 and 25 in Canada and the UK. Drawing on questionnaires, interviews and vid... Read More about Understanding young adult Muslim and Christian attitudes toward queer identity: A Canadian and UK comparison.

Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists (2019)
Journal Article

This article analyzes the ways in which rights-based arguments are utilized by anti-abortion activists in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study featuring 30 abortion clinic sites, anti-abortion marches, and other campaigns, we argue that rights-ba... Read More about Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists.

Introduction: class and Christianity (2017)
Journal Article

Anglican clergy husbands securing middle-class gendered privilege through religion (2017)
Journal Article

Traditionally, clergy wives have been obliged to assist the Church in an unpaid capacity; such work has been feminised, associated with the assumed competencies of women (Denton 1962; Finch 1980, 1983; Murphy-Geiss 2011). Clergy husbands are a relati... Read More about Anglican clergy husbands securing middle-class gendered privilege through religion.

Altruism and Sacrifice: Anglican Priests Managing 'Intensive' Priesthood and Motherhood (2016)
Journal Article

Motherhood and Priesthood are two roles that carry with them particular expectations and demands; both are premised on the notion of altruism and sacrifice, constant availability, and putting the needs of others before one's own. This has also been g... Read More about Altruism and Sacrifice: Anglican Priests Managing 'Intensive' Priesthood and Motherhood.

The scrutinized priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Choices (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the integration of women priests in the Church of England through the lens of dress. Clothing is a salient dynamic in occupational cultures, particularly in relation to the regulation of gendered bodies. Women's ordination to th... Read More about The scrutinized priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Choices.