ABSTRACT
As Maira and Soep (2005) remind us, “Youth, it seems, are everywhere and nowhere” (xv). This conclusion returns us full circle to a consideration of the ways in which youth experiences of faith, culture, and creativity converge and overlap for these young people in Samoan and South Sudanese Australian worlds. The ability to see the ways in which a rise in faith-based cultures contradicts discourses of religious essentialism can be useful in considering the contemporary obsession with both creativity and also religious extremism. This text, however, has mainly focused on the ways in which these youth use a range of strategies (both online and offline) in order to create communities not bounded by nations or geographies.
