Researching Female Faith is a collection of essays based on recent and original field research conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls – broadly from within a Christian context.

Introduction; Part I: Developing Feminist Methodologies; 1 ‘Come as a Girl’: Exploring Issues of Participative Methodology for Research into the Spiritual Lives and Faith of Girls-Becoming-Women, Anne Phillips; 2 Poetry as Feminist Research Methodology in the Study of Female Faith, Nicola Slee; 3 Weaving a Web: Developing a Feminist Practical Theology Methodology from a Charismatic Perspective, Helen Collins; 4 Living Religion: Collapsing (Male Constructed?) Boundaries between the Religious and the Spiritual, Janet Eccles; Part II: Gathering Data; 5‘Sometimes You Need a Question’: Structure and Flexibility in Feminist Interviewing, Fran Porter; 6 Exploring Young Adults’ Faith Lives through Video Diaries: Consent, Voice and Power, Sarah-Jane Page; 7 Using Social Media for Feminist Qualitative Research: A Pilot Study into Women’s Experiences of Holy Communion, Kim Wasey; 8 Choosing the Right Key: Glaserian Grounded Theory, NVivo and Analysing Interviews with Survivors, Susan Shooter; Part III: Analysing Data; 9 Listening for the ‘I’: Adapting a Voice-Centred, Relational Method of Data Analysis in a Group Interview to Examine Women’s Faith Lives, Kate Massey; 10 Wholly Sound: A Feminist Reframing of the ‘Problem’ of Interview Silence as a Methodology for Discovering New Knowledge, Alison Woolley; 11 Song of a Voiceless Person: Using the Poetry of Menna Elfyn in a Study of Welsh Women’s Identity and Religion, Manon Ceridwen James; Part IV: Practising Reflexivity; 12 Reflexivity, Identity and the Role of the Researcher, Jenny Morgans; 13 Writing the Self: Using the Self in Feminist Theological Research; Jan Berry