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Review of Nicola Slee, Fran Porter and Anne Phillips (eds.), The Faith Lives of Women and Girls (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology series)

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This is a collection of short essays on a wide range of subjects relating to the faith lives of women and girls. The nineteen chapters are divided into five sections, dealing with: feminist research perspectives; neglected aspects of the faith lives of women and girls; diverse ecclesial and geographic contexts; spiritual beliefs, practices and attachments; and experiences of liminality. The use of a short format allows for the presentation of key findings from large research projects and experienced academics as well as contributions from MA students whose dissertation work is published here. The inclusion of the latter ensures that the volume includes fresh voices on the topics considered – many of them not dealt with in depth if at all in previous literature – and the editors of the volume have clearly made an effort to include a diversity of perspectives. Overall, the argument of this book, if a collection of this kind can be said to have a single argument, is that the faith lives of women and girls have been neglected in previous research and reward further study, a position for which it provides ample evidence in the form of a series of fascinating studies on that topic.

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Faith Lives of Women and Girls
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