Sovereign of Herself : Women’s Narratives of ‘Lived Atheism’

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"Atheism is not the problem. The problem is being a woman." Atheist Women and Reasonable Feminism

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Presuming Religious Congruence? The Nonreligious and Catholicism in Poland

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Becoming a ‘real’ Catholic : Polish migrants and lived religiosity in the UK and Ireland

We are grateful to Andrew McKinnon (University of Aberdeen) for his insightful comments on an earlier version of this article. We would also like to thank the referees of the Journal of Contemporary Religion for their constructive and detailed comments which helped us to improve the argument further. The British portion of the research was funded by Porticus UK. The research team included Halina Grzymała-Moszczynska, Marta Trzebiatowska, Claire Wallace, Joanna Krotofil, Anna Jurek, and Marcin Lisak.Peer reviewedPostprin

‘It’s all for girls’: re-visiting the gender gap in New Age spiritualities

Women’s disproportionate involvement in religion has been the subject of debate in the sociology of religion for some time. In particular, the gender gap in New Age spiritualities appears considerably greater than that found in the congregational sphere of mainstream religion. This article argues that there is nothing in being a woman per se that may attract an individual to certain spiritual activities but rather, that it is the elective affinity between women as a group and such activities that creates the impression of a direct appeal. Much of the holistic spirituality milieu is designed by women for women, not least the most popular elements concerned with healing and well-being. It is therefore possible that the initial gap between men and women is small but it becomes subsequently reinforced and widened due to the gendered nature of alternative spirituality courses, workshops and treatments

Gender, religion and identity : Catholic nuns in twenty-first century Poland

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'It's All for Girls': re-visitng the gender gap in New Age spiritualities

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Bourdieu, Capital and Conflict in a Religious Field : The Case of the ‘Homosexuality’ Conflict in the Anglican Communion

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