Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities

Presenting cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life, Religion, Equalities and Inequalities argues that when religion is left out of social scientific analyses, it can result in incomplete analyses that conceal pathways to social inclusion and exclusion. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors who operate at the vanguard of theoretical and empirical work on how social structures of power, institutions and bodies can generate equalities and inequalities in religion, the collection shows how religion can enable and challenge the inequities that affect people's everyday lives.

Dawn Llewellyn is Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Chester, UK. Her research has focused on Christian and post-Christian women's reading practices, third wave feminism and religion, feminist generations, motherhood and elective childlessness in Christianity, and methodologies in religious studies. She is the author of Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality: Troubling the Waves (Palgrave MacMillan 2015), and with Deborah F. Sawyer co-edited Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred (Ashgate 2008).

Sonya Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University London, UK. Her research has focused on women's experiences of church life and sexuality, religion in healthcare, and religion in families and young people. She is co-author of Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith (Bloomsbury 2013) and co-editor of Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization (Ashgate 2008).