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Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts-based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith, belief and ‘what really matters’ in diverse areas. Each of the book’s research sites is geographically and culturally specific in ways that shape residents’ experiences of community and belonging, but they are united by enduring threads relating to colonisation, diaspora and negotiating belonging in culturally diverse contexts.
Examining faith reveals that there are striking similarities between seemingly different cultures. Understanding these connections can reduce conflict and promote cohesion in communities that are often struggling to adapt to huge changes. This book provides rich resources for those who wish to explore faith and belief in complex social circumstances, either as research or as community engagement. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
'Weaving between disciplines, methods, and interactive practices, Hickey-Moody expertly pulls the reader along several threads of the personal, the communal, the political, and the belief that there is always something more. This is a work that enacts an ethos of radical, collective care, a richly descriptive work that never hides from its readers all of the living and breathing, all of the troubles and joys, of its own making.'
Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University
'With this book, Hickey-Moody offers a valuable contribution to ‘highlighting the significance of quotidian meanings in religion, spirituality and community’ (p. 194). As a study which explores the role of faith in social transformation and the common good, it is especially pertinent for those interested in issues not only of religion, but also racism, multiculturalism, citizenship, democracy, education, women’s and LGBT+’s rights and the environment. The richness of Hickey-Moody’s findings should encourage researchers to study religions through the lens of believers’ faith practices and the cultural meanings of these practices in relation to the formation of believers’ identities.'
Teresa Martinho Toldy, European Journal of Women's Studies
1 Contexts / Comhthéacs
2 Faith: a new materialist approach / Creideamh
3 Mapping and making / Ag déanamh
4 Affect and joy / Áthas
5 Belonging / Muintearas
6 Connections / Naisc
7 Incapacity / Neamhábaltacht
8 Other worlds / Neamhshaolta
Conclusion / Conclúid
Index