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Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality (2021)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2022). Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality. In C. Starkey, & E. Tomalin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society (234-248). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466953-18

This chapter considers religion in relation to intimate life. The relationship between religion and intimate life in the UK has undergone significant change in recent years. It has focused on the relationship between religion and intimate life in the... Read More about Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality.

Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Contributing to an Unfinished Conversation (2020)
Book Chapter
Page, S., & Kam-Tuck Yip, A. (2020). Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Contributing to an Unfinished Conversation. In Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Sociological Perspectives. Lieden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390713_002

This chapter aims to enable a more nuanced conversation about the inclusion of religion in intersectional study, specifically in relation to sexuality. It starts by introducing intersectionality and how we conceptualise it, orienting it around four k... Read More about Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Contributing to an Unfinished Conversation.

Navigating Religion, Sexuality and Illness: Ellie’s Story (2020)
Book Chapter
Page, S., & Yip, A. K. (2020). Navigating Religion, Sexuality and Illness: Ellie’s Story. In S. Page, & A. K. Yip (Eds.), Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Sociological Perspectives (228-248). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390713_013

This chapter uses one woman’s life story to examine the intersection of religion, sexuality, and illness. This woman, Ellie, was a university student who identified as a ‘Quaker-Buddhist-Pagan’ bisexual and practised polyamory, and she also suffered... Read More about Navigating Religion, Sexuality and Illness: Ellie’s Story.

Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions (2017)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2017). Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions. In Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107547

In recent years, concepts such as lived and everyday religion have re-energised how religion is measured, analysed and understood. But although such terminology is readily deployed in contemporary research, there are areas where it has not been so pr... Read More about Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions.

Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2016). Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms. In F. Stella, Y. Taylor, T. Reynolds, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315752563

The twenty-first century is often invoked as a period of greater sexual freedom, with restraint and traditionalism partitioned to the past. The new rights accorded to LGBTQ groups and women have cemented such a perception. But whilst some theorists (... Read More about Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms.

Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality (2016)
Book Chapter
Page, S. (2016). Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality. In L. Gemzöe, M. Keinänen, & A. Maddrell (Eds.), Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion: European Perspectives (131-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42598-6_6

Equality has become an important concept within secular-liberal societies (Perrons 2005), with white, secular Western women interpellated as quintessentially embodying this equality (Gill and Scharff 2011; McRobbie 2011; Nayak and Kehily 2008). For r... Read More about Navigating Equality: Religious Young Women’s Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality Equality.