Invited keynote speaker for the conference ‘Materiality, Gender and Sensemaking: Religion and Secularity in Everyday Life’ at University of Groningen, Netherlands.

This talk addresses questions such as: What does it mean to leave behind a devout faith and community? What are the stories of faith, community, isolation and loss that need to be told and analyzed? And what does it mean to ‘stay’ or ‘leave’ a religion?