ABSTRACT
It was important we included this article in our reprise of the last ten years since it is almost unique in the good practice it offers as we looked over what has been published. It is, variously, from outside our UK and Ireland context, multi-authored, inter-disciplinary and utilising quantitative data from a nationwide study that included a crossover into the subjects’ interaction with their local church. In addition it deals with the body (that much neglected locus for theological reflection in the West) allied to the concerns of feminism about the wellbeing of adolescent girls. The conclusions the article makes are important to both fields, but especially to the church which was challenged about its approach to and teaching on embodiment as girls are becoming ‘physical, mature and female sexual beings’.
