ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25 and living in the UK, negotiate the risks embedded in the lived present in order to construct an imagined future in relation to religion, sexuality and intimate relationships. Specifically, it explores how they envisage their futures, illustrated through their negotiation of their sexuality and religious faith. Although this chapter is based on a project that examines Christian and non-Christian young adults, here we have chosen to focus on the narratives of those who were not exclusively Christian – Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and mixed faith (e.g. Christian–Buddhist) individuals – in order to fill a gap in this area where research is predominantly Christian-centric (e.g. Freitas 2008; Smith and Snell 2009).
