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This project examines how framing the late Prof. John Hull’s work on Christian adult learning in terms of disruptive-inclusion clarifies its contribution to, and potential implications for, Christian adult learning methodology and practice in the UK. This overarching task is achieved in three consolidating parts. Firstly, part A considers the foundational role of the 1985 publication, What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning? in understanding the relationship between Hull’s conception and personal experiences of Christian adult learning. Part B provides a wider contextualisation of disruptive-inclusion within scholarly conversations relating to Christian adult learning in the UK, Europe and North American. It also addresses the thematic resonances and contrasts between disruptive-inclusion and several established theological and pedagogical approaches to Christian adult learning. Finally, part C analyses the potential implications of disruptive-inclusion for the future of Christian adult learning. In particular, it addresses the pedagogical function of the Bible and what disruptive-inclusive Christian adult learning looks, sounds and feels like in the classroom, from the pulpit and in online learning settings.

Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple significant changes in recent decades. Researching Female Faith is a collection of essays based on recent and original field research conducted by the contributors, and informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives, into the faith lives of women and girls - broadly from within a Christian context. Essays describe and recount original qualitative research that identifies, illuminates and enhances our understanding of key aspects of women's and girls' faith lives. Offered as a contribution to feminist practical and pastoral theology, the essays arise out of and feed back into a range of mainly UK pastoral and practical contexts. While the essays in this volume will contribute to an enhanced appreciation and analysis of female faith, the core focus is on feminist qualitative research methods and methodology. Thus, they demystify and illuminate the process of research, including features of research which are frequently under-examined. The book is a first in bringing together a specific focus on feminist qualitative research methodology with the study of female faith lives. It will therefore be of great interest to students, academics and practitioners with interests in faith and gender in theology, religious studies and sociology.