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      Qualitative Research Methods

      Researching Female Faith

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      Researching Female Faith book

      Qualitative Research Methods
      Edited ByNicola Slee, Fran Porter, Anne Phillips
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 14 November 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185446
      Pages 250
      eBook ISBN 9781315185446
      Subjects Humanities, Research Methods
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      Slee, N., Porter, F., & Phillips, A. (Eds.). (2017). Researching Female Faith: Qualitative Research Methods (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185446

      ABSTRACT

      Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple significant changes in recent decades. Researching Female Faith is a collection of essays based on recent and original field research conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls – broadly from within a Christian context.

      Essays describe and recount original qualitative research that identifies, illuminates and enhances our understanding of key aspects of women’s and girls’ faith lives. Offered as a contribution to feminist practical and pastoral theology, the essays arise out of and feed back into a range of mainly UK pastoral and practical contexts. While the essays in this volume will contribute to an enhanced appreciation and analysis of female faith, the core focus is on feminist qualitative research methods and methodology. Thus, they demystify and illuminate the process of research, including features of research which are frequently under-examined.

      The book is a first in bringing together a specific focus on feminist qualitative research methodology with the study of female faith lives. It will therefore be of great interest to students, academics and practitioners with interests in faith and gender in theology, religious studies and sociology.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |19 pages

      Introduction

      ByAnne Phillips, Fran Porter, Nicola Slee

      part I|60 pages

      Developing feminist methodologies

      chapter 1|14 pages

      ‘Come as a girl’

      Exploring issues of participative methodology for research into the spiritual lives and faith of girls-becoming-women
      ByAnne Phillips

      chapter 2|17 pages

      Poetry as feminist research methodology in the study of female faith

      ByNicola Slee

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Weaving a web

      Developing a feminist practical theology methodology from a charismatic perspective
      ByHelen Collins

      chapter 4|11 pages

      Living religion

      Collapsing (male constructed?) boundaries between the religious and the spiritual
      ByJanet Eccles

      part II|44 pages

      Gathering data

      chapter 5|15 pages

      ‘Sometimes you need a question’

      Structure and flexibility in feminist interviewing
      ByFran Porter

      chapter 6|15 pages

      Exploring young adults’ faith lives through video diaries

      Consent, voice and power
      BySarah-Jane Page

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Using social media for feminist qualitative research

      A pilot study into women’s experiences of Holy Communion
      ByKim Wasey

      part III|61 pages

      Analysing data

      chapter 8|13 pages

      Choosing the right key

      Glaserian grounded theory, NVivo and analysing interviews with survivors
      BySusan Shooter

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Listening for the ‘I’

      Adapting a voice-centred, relational method of data analysis in a group interview to examine women’s faith lives
      ByKate Massey

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Wholly sound

      A Feminist reframing of the ‘problem’ of interview silence as a methodology for discovering new knowledge
      ByAlison Woolley

      chapter 11|16 pages

      Song of a voiceless person

      Using the poetry of Menna Elfyn in a study of Welsh women’s identity and religion
      ByManon Ceridwen James

      part IV|30 pages

      Practising reflexivity

      chapter 12|14 pages

      Reflexivity, identity and the role of the researcher

      ByJenny Morgans

      chapter 13|14 pages

      Writing the self

      Using the self in feminist theological research
      ByJan Berry
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