Outputs (34)

Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity (2024)
Book

This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often contrast with the official line of Catholic Church doctrine. The authors’ extensive qualitative investigation involving various Cath... Read More about Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity.

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.

Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere (2022)
Book

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists. Whilst they represent a tiny minority, there is recent evidence of an increase... Read More about Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere.

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.

Religion and intimate life: Marriage, family, sexuality (2021)
Book Chapter

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.

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.

Contested Embodiment: The Use of Prayer in Public Displays of Anti-abortion Activism (2020)
Book Chapter

Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Contributing to an Unfinished Conversation (2020)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies (2020)
Book

This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been fra... Read More about Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes and Methodologies.

Bisexual Erasure and Religious Spaces: Experiences of Young Adults in the United Kingdom (2020)
Book Chapter

Sophie's choice: Narratives of ‘saving’ in British public debates on abortion (2020)
Journal Article

In the UK, narratives about saved women and babies have been a significant feature in anti-abortion campaigns to oppose bufferzones, which seek to prevent anti-abortion activists from being directly outside abortion clinics. Anti-abortion activists a... Read More about Sophie's choice: Narratives of ‘saving’ in British public debates on abortion.

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.

‘On the wet side of the womb’: The construction of ‘mothers’ in anti-abortion activism in England and Wales (2018)
Journal Article

Across the UK, there has been an increase in anti-abortion activism outside abortion clinics. The activism deployed includes explicitly religious activities such as ‘prayerful witnessing’ and ‘pavement counselling’, which aim to discourage women from... Read More about ‘On the wet side of the womb’: The construction of ‘mothers’ in anti-abortion activism in England and Wales.

Lived religion and sexuality: Future directions (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

Exploring young adults' faith lives through video diaries: Consent, voice and power (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the author considers the background literature in relation to feminist approaches to research and visual methods more generally. She reflects on three issues: consent, voice and power/hierarchy, and concentrates on the implications o... Read More about Exploring young adults' faith lives through video diaries: Consent, voice and power.

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.

Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys (2017)
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There is currently an acute lack of scholarly engagement with Buddhism and youth. Based on ground-breaking empirical research, Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys explores the stories of young Buddhists, through a rich analysis... Read More about Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys.

Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young Adults Subverting Sexual Norms (2016)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Double scrutiny at the Vicarage: Clergy Mothers, Expectations, and the Public Gaze (2016)
Book Chapter

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.

Sex talk: discussion and meaning-making among religious young adults (2015)
Book Chapter

Sexuality and Christianity: understanding the attitudes and negotiations of young adults in the UK (2014)
Book Chapter

Christianity has historically incorporated numerous strands of thinking on sexuality; in some cases, problematizing sexuality through the endorsement of celibacy and asceticism while at other historical and contextual moments, marriage and procreatio... Read More about Sexuality and Christianity: understanding the attitudes and negotiations of young adults in the UK.

Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the United Kingdom in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from questionnaires, int... Read More about Religious faith and heterosexuality: A multi-faith exploration of young adults.

Feminist faith lives? Exploring perceptions of feminism among two Anglican cohorts (2013)
Book Chapter

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.

Religious and sexual identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults (2013)
Book

Women, Mothers, and Priests in the Church of England. What a Vocation! (2012)
Journal Article

This paper will consider how women priests in the Church of England have been incorporated into the occupational life of the Church, highlighting the ways in which women are negotiating a discriminatory terrain. Although general opposition to women’s... Read More about Women, Mothers, and Priests in the Church of England. What a Vocation!.

Religious young adults recounting the past: narrating sexual and religious cultures in school (2012)
Journal Article

Schooling can be a pivotal time in young people’s formative experience when identities are negotiated and forged. However, contradictory dominant cultures can operate within the school context, making it very challenging for individuals to negotiate... Read More about Religious young adults recounting the past: narrating sexual and religious cultures in school.

Negotiating sacred roles: A Sociological Exploration of Priests who Are Mothers (2011)
Journal Article

In 1992, in a historic move, the Church of England voted to allow women's ordination to priesthood and in 1994 the first women priests started to be ordained. Despite much research interest, the experiences of priests who are mothers to dependent chi... Read More about Negotiating sacred roles: A Sociological Exploration of Priests who Are Mothers.

The Construction of Masculinities and Femininities in the Church of England: The Case of the Male Clergy Spouse (2008)
Journal Article

The ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England in 1994 signified great change. The impact of the new priests was well documented, and their integration became the focus of much research in the following years. One important area o... Read More about The Construction of Masculinities and Femininities in the Church of England: The Case of the Male Clergy Spouse.