Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective

1. Front Matter

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2. Young People and the Diversity of (Non)religious Identities in International Perspective: Introduction

   • Heather Shipley, Elisabeth Arweck

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3. Society and Institutions

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Religious/Spiritual Identity among Younger Adults in Canada: A Complex Portrait

      • Peter Beyer, Alyshea Cummins, Scott Craig

      Pages 15-31

   3. Religious Belonging in Family, School, and Ethnic Communities: Changes in Christian–Catholic Second Generations in Italy

      • Roberta Ricucci

      Pages 33-50

   4. The ‘Hidden Christians’ of the UK University Campus

      • Mathew Guest

      Pages 51-67

   5. Averting Intragenerational and Intergenerational Religious Bullying in Schools and in Society through Religious Literacy: Québec as a Case Study

      • W. Y. Alice Chan

      Pages 69-86

   6. Christian Identities, Theologies of Religion, and Attitude towards Religious Diversity: A Study among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students across the UK

      • Leslie J. Francis, Gemma Penny, Jeff Astley

      Pages 87-107

4. Identity and Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Civic Engagement and Identity Formation: Narrative Identities of Swiss Muslim Youth Actively Engaged in Voluntary Associations

      • Amir Sheikhzadegan

      Pages 111-130

   3. The Sacred Experiences of Filipino Youth

      • Jeane C. Peracullo, Rito V. Baring, Dennis S. Erasga, Leni de la Rosa Garcia, Lars Raymund Ubaldo

      Pages 131-147

   4. ‘I’m Not Really a Non-religious Person’: Diversity among Young People of No Religion

      • Simeon Wallis

      Pages 149-164

5. Gender and Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. The Religious Socialisation of Young Adult Muslims in Montreal (Quebec): From Learned to Reasoned Religion

      • Josiane LeGall, Daniela Moisa

      Pages 167-182

   3. Ethnicity and the Making of Gay Muslims in Britain and Malaysia

      • Shanon Shah

      Pages 183-201

   4. Religious Orthodoxy, Empowerment, and Virtuous Femininity among Pious Women: A Cross-Religious Reading Between Muslim and Pentecostal Youth

      • Géraldine Mossière

      Pages 203-220

   5. Everyday Lived Islam of Young People from Muslim Migrant Families in Germany

      • Franz Erhard, Kornelia Sammet

      Pages 221-239

   6. Experiencing Religion and Sexual Diversity in Ontario’s Schools

      • Heather Shipley

      Pages 241-258

This volume brings together current research on young people, (non)religion, and diversity, documenting the forms young people’s stances may take and the social or spatial contexts in which these may be formed. The social contexts studied include the family, school, and faith communities. The spatial contexts include (sub)urban and rural geographies and places of worship and pilgrimage.
Youth and (non)religion are an area of academic interest that has been gaining increasing attention, especially as it pertains to youthful expressions of (non)religion and identities. As research on religion and young people spans and expands across academic disciplines and across geographic areas, comparative approaches and perspectives, such as presented in this volume, offer important spaces for reflecting about the experience of religiosity among young people and the ways they are learning about, and developing, (non)religious identities. Building bridges geographicallyand methodologically, this volume provides an international perspective on religion and nonreligion among young people, offering a diversity of religious and nonreligious perspectives. 

• Youth and religion
• (Non)Religious identity
• Nonreligion, spirituality
• Religious and nonreligious/ethnic diversity
• Religion and gender
• Religion and sexuality
• Education and religion
• Religion and culture
• Religion and boundaries
• Religious literacy
• childhood studies
• religion and society

• Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

  Elisabeth Arweck

• Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  Heather Shipley

Elisabeth Arweck’s research focuses on religion, young people, and education and includes topics such as religious socialisation, religious education (in school and other contexts), religion in families, values, religious communities, religious diversity/multiculturalism, and migration/immigration. Her recent research has focused on young people’s attitudes to religious diversity and the religious socialisation and nurture of young people. Recent publications include a number of (co-authored) articles and (co-edited) volumes, such as Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity (Routledge 2017), Education about Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies (with Anna Halafoff and Donald Boisvert, Routledge 2016), Religion and Knowledge (with Mathew Guest, Ashgate 2012), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (with Chris Deacy, Ashgate2009), and Reading Religion in Text and Context (with Peter Collins, Ashgate 2006). She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching New Religious Movements in the West (Routledge 2007) and co-author (with Peter Clarke) of New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press 1997).

Heather Shipley’s research focuses on the intersections of religious and sexually diverse identities, as they are constructed, managed, and experienced in education, the media, and the law. Recent publications include Identities Under Construction (with P. Dickey Young, McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming), “Christianity, Gender and Identity among Canadian Youth” (with P. Dickey Young) in The Brill Handbook of Global Christianity (edited by S. Hunt, Brill Academic Press 2015), “Belief, Not Religion: Youth Negotiations ofReligious Identity in Canada”(with P. Dickey Young) in Handbook on Child and Youth Studies (edited by J. Wyn and H. Cahill, Springer 2014); Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices (editor, Brill Academic Press 2014), and Religion and Sexuality: Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance (edited, with P. Dickey Young and T. Trothen UBC Press 2015).

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