Faith Stories

Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times

Anna Hickey-Moody

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Manchester University Press
01 May 2023

Interfaith relations; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology

Faith stories explains systems of cultural value that are articulated through faith. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts workshops for their children, Anna Hickey-Moody examines belonging, attachment, faith, belief and ‘what really matters’ in diverse areas in England and Australia. Her research finds surprising similarities in how people are connected to daily life through faith, and how others postpone their involvement in the everyday with the hope of being rewarded after death. Children bring together their religious worlds with imagined solutions to everyday problems. Indeed, in their artwork they save the planet from threats of war, climate change and recuperate their geographically divided families, suggesting that other worlds are possible. Their parent’s faith shows this too. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever.

By: Anna Hickey-Moody
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9781526165244
ISBN 10: 1526165244
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Intersectional Humanities at Maynooth, National University of Ireland -- .

Reviews for Faith Stories: Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times

'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, editor at Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry -- .