Gender, Sexuality and Religious Exit Rethinking the Body, Politics and Methodologies

List of Contributors
Foreword
Julia Martínez-Ariño
Foreword: a research agenda for gender and religious exit
Karin van Nieuwkerk
Acknowledgement

Introduction: New Frames for Gender and Religious Exit
Nella van den Brandt and Sarah-Jane Page

Part I: Introducing Gender and Religious Exit

1. ‘I Just Didn't Feel it’: Affective Routes of Religious Exit and Re-Enchantment through Feminine Spirituality
Ella Poutiainen

2. “One of the Things I Have Never Liked about the Catholic Church is the Role of Women in It”: Gendered Religious Exit Narratives of Bahá’ís in Ireland
Tova Makhani-Belkin

3. Women on the Run? Mapping Geographical Variations in Female Religiosity in Italy
Stefania Palmisano & Lorenzo Todesco

Part 2: Troubling Terminology, Categories and Methods

4. Racialising and Religionising the Study of Religious Exit: Women Negotiating White Secular/Christian Normativity
Nella van den Brandt

5. I’ve Been There Too: A Feminist Insider Approach to Researching Religious Exit and Gender
Rebecca Laura Anne Davis

6. On the limits of religious exit: Islam, secularity, and social change in Kyrgyzstan
Usmon Boron

7. Sealed Doors, Sliding Doors, No doors: Different Ways of Exiting Christianity and Entering Zen Buddhism in Italy
Silvia Rivadossi

Part 3: The Politics of Leaving: Conflict, Protest, Critique

8. Speaking Against Islam: Social and Political Participation after Moving Out of Religion in Spain
Rosa Martinez-Cuadros

9. Slamming the Church Doors: Women’s Apostasies as Resistance to Catholic Power in Poland
Anna Szwed & Katarzyna Zielińska

10. Feeling In or Out: The Politics of Boredom in Christian Public Discourse in the Netherlands
Mariecke van den Berg

11. Religious Organisations and Disaffiliation within Far-Right Catholicism in Chile
Luciano Santander & Timo Koch

Part 4: Moving Out: Trajectories of Trauma and Healing

12. Reclaiming the Self: Dutch Queer Narratives of Trauma, Religious Exit, and Empowered Sexual Agency
Jafeth Jacobs & Srdjan Sremac

13. ‘The Threads of Purity Run Through It All, and There Is So Much Pain Attached’: British Millennials and the Legacy of Evangelical Purity Culture
Morgana Loze-Doyle

14. Religious Exit and LGBTQIA+ Jehovah’s Witnesses: Identity, Heteronormativity and Recovery in the UK 
Heather J. Spooner, Lindy Rey Lovett & Sharon Dawn Smith

Index

Biography

Nella van den Brandt is a Researcher of Religion, Gender and Race at the KU Leuven, Belgium.

Sarah-Jane Page is a Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a sociologist of religion, specialising in gender and sexuality.