Dawn Llewellyn

Dr. Dawn Llewellyn is Associate Professor in Religion and Gender at the University of Chester. Her research is grounded in qualitative methods and she draws on sociological perspectives to examine gender and feminism in contemporary Christianity and new spiritualities. Her work has explored women’s religious reading practice, feminist generations, motherhood and childlessness, and feminist methodologies in religion. She is the author of Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality, and has co-edited Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities (with Sonya Sharma), and Reading Spiritualities (with Deborah Sawyer). She is also co-edits Bloomsbury Series in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality.

 

Contributions by Dawn Llewellyn

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Spiritual Abuse Roundtable

Join host Theo Wildcroft and panelists Wendy Dossett, Dawn Llewellyn, Suzanne Newcombe, and Lisa Oakley as they discuss scholarship and academic approaches to issues of 'spiritual abuse'.

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BASR 2019: The State of the Discipline

Vivian Asimos and Theodora Wildcroft took the opportunity to ask the delegates of BASR 2019 what inspired them about the conference theme, their opinion about major trends in the discipline, and how they were personally feeling about REF 2021.

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Scrape My Barrel! | Mid-Year Special 2017 (with video)

This 2017 mid-year special's game "Scrape My Barrel"—which has absolutely no connection to the popular BBC gameshow "Call My Bluff"—features two teams of religious studies scholars pitted against each other in a battle of definitions, pedantry, creativity, deception, performance and ‘wit’. Tune in to find out whether the 'established' scholars (George Chryssides, Dawn Llewellyn, and Paul-François Tremlett) or the ‘up-and-coming’ baristas... sorry, RS scholars (Vivian Asimos, Liam Sutherland, and Amy Whitehead) win bragging rights this year!

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Religion and Feminism

'Religion' and 'Feminism' are two concepts that have a complex relationship in the popular imaginary. But what do academics mean by these two concepts? And how can we study their interrelationship? What can we say about 'religion and feminism', about the academic study of 'religion and feminism', ...

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Narrative and Reflexivity in the Study of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion (with video)

The idea for this roundtable was that it would follow on directly from this week's interview on religion and literature, but expand the discussion to cover a variety of points relating to narrative, autobiography and (auto)ethnography in the study of religion. Featuring Dr Wendy Dossett, Prof. Elaine Graham, Dr Dawn Llewellyn, Ethan Quillen, and Dr Alana Vincent.

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