Christian Women at University

Author Jenny Morgans
Publisher SCM Press £25
Format pbk
ISBN SCM Press £25

The pastoral care of young Christian adults matters. This is an academic book combining post-doctoral qualitative research interviewing Christian women at university with much reference to other academic work in this field. The subtitle is Faith, Feminism and Feeling at Home. The women access a variety of chaplaincies, Christian unions and university town churches, and describe meeting different faith perspectives. Their experience as women is at a time when post-feminism is significant if not always obvious. Their identities as students, women and Christians ‘intersect’ and will also include aspects of sexuality, race and class. A major focus is the transition from home to ‘unhome’, and then to creating home. This uses a model of spiritual development, not linear, but of a home with several rooms. The author critiques the barriers still faced by women in church, at university, and in post-feminist culture, but celebrates the women in the study and the way they have navigated their transitions.

Reviewed by ROSIE MEDHURST

Women’s Ministry/Pastoral