ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the results of a series of interviews with a small group of women in north-west England. Some women continue to worship in a congregation acknowledging a Christian male god and, hence, continue to operate in an environment privileging the male. The non-subjectivised believers, therefore, are the traditional, self-sacrificial women, whose faith and praxis have remained closest to the Christian home' culturally and religiously, if not always geographically in which they were first nurtured. These particular women are mainly tertiary educated and have been exposed to a more cosmopolitan, pluralist environment, thus to a greater multiplicity of narratives, public and private, sacred and secular. Some women have cast off Christian tradition altogether, either in favour of other forms of the sacred or of combining some reconceived elements of Christianity with other forms of the sacred derived from other cultures and traditions, as commentators such as Roof, Lambert and Hervieu-Lger maintain.
