Faith Stories: Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times by Anna Hicke

Description: Faith Stories by Anna Hickey-Moody Faith stories offers an exploration of the similarities that run through diverse communities. Hickey-Moody examines the patterns of hope that animate adults and childrens lives through complex and challenging events. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 parents faith shows this too. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever. Flap Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Responding to lived experiences, it offers an engaging explanation of the systems of cultural value that articulate through faith. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts-based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith, belief and what really matters in diverse areas. Each of her research sites is geographically and culturally specific in ways that shape residents experiences of community and belonging. However, themes relating to colonisation, diaspora and negotiating belonging in culturally diverse contexts endure. Examining faith shows that there are striking similarities between cultures that might look different. Understanding these connections can reduce conflict and promote cohesion in communities that are often struggling to adapt to huge changes. This book provides rich resources for those who wish to explore faith and belief in complex social circumstances, either as research or as community engagement. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever. Author Biography Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University Table of Contents 1 Contexts / Comhthéacs2 Faith: a new materialist approach / Creideamh3 Mapping and making / Ag déanamh4 Affect and joy / Áthas5 Belonging / Muintearas6 Connections / Naisc7 Incapacity / Neamhábaltacht8 Other worlds / NeamhshaoltaConclusion / ConclÚidIndex Review 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 in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University -- . Long Description 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 parents faith shows this too. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever. Details ISBN1526165244 Author Anna Hickey-Moody Short Title Faith Stories Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1526165244 ISBN-13 9781526165244 Format Hardcover Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times Illustrations 25 b&w figures Pages 240 Publication Date 2023-04-25 NZ Release Date 2023-04-25 UK Release Date 2023-04-25 DEWEY 202.2 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-04-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142463901;

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