'Anna Hickey-Moody’s book "Faith Stories, Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times" approaches faith as a concept that transcends religion. This allows her to encompass diverse ways of faith – both those rooted in specific religious traditions and those that extend beyond them'. Read the full review of Faith Stories here in MATTER: Journal of New Materialist Research .
Dr Saulevich (University of Gras) says 'Hickey-Moody offers a more detailed intersectional analysis of how faith operates. Her insights align with [my] findings, offering language for aspects of [my] research that I had intuitively sensed but struggled to articulate'.
'This book is an excellent resource for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. By combining embodiment, ethnography, art-based methods, and a philosophical framework, Hickey-Moody offers an approach with multiple entry points for those seeking new ways to explore faith, religion, and spirituality. This book can be recommended to a large scope of researchers. As it offers insights into the complex processes of faith, it can contribute to the development of theory on pastoral care and counselling. For intercultural theologians, Hickey-Moody’s work provides socio-critical insights on how faith and belonging take shape in different contexts. It can also serve as a framework for theology to rethink its narratives, practices, methodologies, and goals in conducting intercultural research.
For scholars in migration studies, this book elevates the significance of faith and religion and offers a perspective beyond established theological interpretations and functional views. This work is also significant for pedagogues, especially those working with children. It opens new perspectives on children’s spirituality and breaks the wall between children’s and adults’ worlds'.