Sonya Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonya Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonya |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding midlife single women's care as radical
Single women's lives are important but marginalised. The care that they do is meaningful and can be radical. In this article, we argue that within neoliberal patriarchal capitalism, radical care work is care that emerges from the margins, is self-and-other regarding and envisions change through maintenance and small acts. This definition draws insights from an emerging body of literature that uses the term 'radical care' to explore its potential …
Social Justice in the Work of Women Healthcare Chaplains: A Feminist Analysis of Spiritual Activism
In the fraught and intimate context of healthcare, women chaplains provide spiritual care to the suffering. In addition to listening and prayer, their spiritual care is often focused on equity and inclusion such as advocacy for the vulnerable amid broader social and economic crises. This article draws on data from qualitative interviews conducted with women healthcare chaplains in London, England and Vancouver, Canada. We note that while social s…
Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Editorial: Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Racialisation, Illness and My Father: Three Vignettes
racialised people(s) continue to experience racism and inequity in and outside of healthcare settings, affecting their well-being (Hassen et al., 2021, p. 2; Gebhard, McLean and St. Denis, 2022;Geronimus, 2023).In this short piece, I present three vignettes that focus on my father and me in different spaces.In these vignettes, he is dying of cancer, and I am observing, listening to and conversing with him.My father was one of eight children who g…
Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
Becoming Queer and Religious in Malaysia and Singapore
"What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life? What narratives of becoming 'person' emerge from these lived realities? Sharon A. Bong addresses these questions by exploring the personal journeys of several GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) persons negotiating the tensions between living out their sexuality and religiosity in the context of Malaysia and Singapore. By shari…
‘The Elephant on the Table’: Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Home Health Services
Women and Religion in the West
Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities
Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce, Why Are Women More Religious Than Men
Sacred spaces in public places: Religious and spiritual plurality in health care
REIMER‐KIRKHAM S, SHARMA S, PESUT B, SAWATZKY R, MEYERHOFF H and COCHRANE M. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19 : 202–212 Sacred spaces in public places: religious and spiritual plurality in health care Several intriguing developments mark the role and expression of religion and spirituality in society in recent years. In what were deemed secular societies, flows of increased sacralization (variously referred to as ‘new’, ‘alternative’, ‘emergent’ and ‘pro…
‘The Church is ... My Family’: Exploring the Interrelationship between Familial and Religious Practices and Spaces
This paper considers the interrelationship between family and church, their practices and spaces. Three areas that emerged from qualitative interviews with women who were current and former churchgoers are addressed. First, women described their ‘church as family’ because of personal histories of attending with family and family-like relationships. Second, the resonance between family and church practices and spaces mapped onto other geographies …
Navigating religion between university and home: Christian students' experiences in English universities
Drawing on qualitative interview research conducted with undergraduates at English universities, this paper examines Christian students' experiences of living out their religious identities at university. Noting the transitional nature of the higher education experience, which often destabilizes existing identities, we explore how, for students self-identifying as 'Christian', the enactment of faith helps to form experiences of continuity between…
Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study
Photo elicitation was employed in a cross-Canada study on family food habits as a means of understanding the meanings that people associate with food. From each family who took part in the study, at least one parent and one adolescent were asked to participate in a qualitative interview, to take photographs of how food fits into their everyday lives, and to participate in a second interview about their photos. In using photo elicitation, we were …
Practicing the Awareness of Embodiment in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Reflections
Although the importance of the researcher's embodiment has been noted in health and social sciences research, in many instances, more attention has been paid to the embodiment of the researched. Thus, more in-depth analysis of the embodied researcher can illuminate qualitative inquiry. The influence of the embodied researcher became visible in a recent critical ethnographic study examining the negotiation of religious, spiritual, and cultural plu…
Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? Women and Religi…
Practicing the Awareness of Embodiment in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Reflections
Although the importance of the researcher's embodiment has been noted in health and social sciences research, in many instances, more attention has been paid to the embodiment of the researched. Thus, more in-depth analysis of the embodied researcher can illuminate qualitative inquiry. The influence of the embodied researcher became visible in a recent critical ethnographic study examining the negotiation of religious, spiritual, and cultural plu…
Navigating religion between university and home: Christian students' experiences in English universities
Drawing on qualitative interview research conducted with undergraduates at English universities, this paper examines Christian students' experiences of living out their religious identities at university. Noting the transitional nature of the higher education experience, which often destabilizes existing identities, we explore how, for students self-identifying as 'Christian', the enactment of faith helps to form experiences of continuity between…
Social Justice in the Work of Women Healthcare Chaplains: A Feminist Analysis of Spiritual Activism
In the fraught and intimate context of healthcare, women chaplains provide spiritual care to the suffering. In addition to listening and prayer, their spiritual care is often focused on equity and inclusion such as advocacy for the vulnerable amid broader social and economic crises. This article draws on data from qualitative interviews conducted with women healthcare chaplains in London, England and Vancouver, Canada. We note that while social s…
Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Editorial: Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? Women and Religi…
Practicing the Awareness of Embodiment in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Reflections
Although the importance of the researcher's embodiment has been noted in health and social sciences research, in many instances, more attention has been paid to the embodiment of the researched. Thus, more in-depth analysis of the embodied researcher can illuminate qualitative inquiry. The influence of the embodied researcher became visible in a recent critical ethnographic study examining the negotiation of religious, spiritual, and cultural plu…
Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study
Photo elicitation was employed in a cross-Canada study on family food habits as a means of understanding the meanings that people associate with food. From each family who took part in the study, at least one parent and one adolescent were asked to participate in a qualitative interview, to take photographs of how food fits into their everyday lives, and to participate in a second interview about their photos. In using photo elicitation, we were …
Sacred spaces in public places: Religious and spiritual plurality in health care
REIMER‐KIRKHAM S, SHARMA S, PESUT B, SAWATZKY R, MEYERHOFF H and COCHRANE M. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19 : 202–212 Sacred spaces in public places: religious and spiritual plurality in health care Several intriguing developments mark the role and expression of religion and spirituality in society in recent years. In what were deemed secular societies, flows of increased sacralization (variously referred to as ‘new’, ‘alternative’, ‘emergent’ and ‘pro…
‘The Church is ... My Family’: Exploring the Interrelationship between Familial and Religious Practices and Spaces
This paper considers the interrelationship between family and church, their practices and spaces. Three areas that emerged from qualitative interviews with women who were current and former churchgoers are addressed. First, women described their ‘church as family’ because of personal histories of attending with family and family-like relationships. Second, the resonance between family and church practices and spaces mapped onto other geographies …
Navigating religion between university and home: Christian students' experiences in English universities
Drawing on qualitative interview research conducted with undergraduates at English universities, this paper examines Christian students' experiences of living out their religious identities at university. Noting the transitional nature of the higher education experience, which often destabilizes existing identities, we explore how, for students self-identifying as 'Christian', the enactment of faith helps to form experiences of continuity between…
Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce, Why Are Women More Religious Than Men
Women and Religion in the West
Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities
‘The Elephant on the Table’: Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Home Health Services
Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
Becoming Queer and Religious in Malaysia and Singapore
"What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life? What narratives of becoming 'person' emerge from these lived realities? Sharon A. Bong addresses these questions by exploring the personal journeys of several GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) persons negotiating the tensions between living out their sexuality and religiosity in the context of Malaysia and Singapore. By shari…
Racialisation, Illness and My Father: Three Vignettes
racialised people(s) continue to experience racism and inequity in and outside of healthcare settings, affecting their well-being (Hassen et al., 2021, p. 2; Gebhard, McLean and St. Denis, 2022;Geronimus, 2023).In this short piece, I present three vignettes that focus on my father and me in different spaces.In these vignettes, he is dying of cancer, and I am observing, listening to and conversing with him.My father was one of eight children who g…
Understanding midlife single women's care as radical
Single women's lives are important but marginalised. The care that they do is meaningful and can be radical. In this article, we argue that within neoliberal patriarchal capitalism, radical care work is care that emerges from the margins, is self-and-other regarding and envisions change through maintenance and small acts. This definition draws insights from an emerging body of literature that uses the term 'radical care' to explore its potential …
Social Justice in the Work of Women Healthcare Chaplains: A Feminist Analysis of Spiritual Activism
In the fraught and intimate context of healthcare, women chaplains provide spiritual care to the suffering. In addition to listening and prayer, their spiritual care is often focused on equity and inclusion such as advocacy for the vulnerable amid broader social and economic crises. This article draws on data from qualitative interviews conducted with women healthcare chaplains in London, England and Vancouver, Canada. We note that while social s…
Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Editorial: Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Feminism
Sociology (14 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works)