Dawn Llewellyn

Dr Dawn Llewellyn, Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester, UK

Dr Dawn Llewellyn is Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester, UK, which she joined in 2010 following her postgraduate studies at Lancaster University and undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her work is grounded in qualitative approaches to gender and contemporary Christianity and feminist spiritualties, and she is the author of Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality: Troubling the Waves (Palgrave, 2015), and she has co-edited Religion, Equalities and Inequalities (with Sonya Sharma, 2016) and Reading Spiritualities (with Deborah Sawyer, Ashgate, 2008). Currently, Dawn is examining the service for ‘Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth’ (‘Churching’) in the Church of England, a project funded by the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group,  and is completing her next book Motherhood, Childlessness, and Christianity: Narratives of Choice (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is the series editor (with Sian Hawthorne and Sonya Sharma) of Bloomsbury’s series in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, and is a board member of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender and serves on the Steering Group for the Faith Lives of Women and Girls.  

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