Faith Stories

Name: Faith Stories
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SKU: 9781526165244
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Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times

By Anna Hickey-Moody

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Faith Stories explores how systems of cultural value are expressed through faith. Based on ethnography, interviews, focus groups, and arts workshops with children, Anna Hickey-Moody investigates belonging, attachment, and belief in diverse communities across England and Australia. The book reveals surprising similarities in how faith connects people to daily life or postpones engagement with hope for rewards after death. Children’s artwork imagines solutions to global problems, reflecting their religious worlds and the possibility of alternative futures. This research offers timely insights into faith and connection in increasingly divided times.
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Ideal for readers interested in ethnography, faith studies, cultural anthropology, education, and social research. Suitable for academics, students, and anyone exploring the intersections of belief, community, and everyday life.

Faith stories offers an exploration of the similarities that run through diverse communities. Hickey-Moody examines the patterns of hope that animate adult's and children's lives through complex and challenging events.

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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.

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'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, Millersville University

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ISBN: 9781526165244

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: 25 b&w figures

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 422g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University

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