ABSTRACT

Investigating the hitherto unexplored topic of how young people understand and relate to religious diversity in the social context in which they are growing up, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of literature on religious diversity and multiculturalism. It closes a gap in knowledge about young people’s attitudes to religious diversity, and reports data gathered across the whole of the UK as well as comparative chapters on Canada, USA and continental Europe. Reporting findings from both qualitative and quantitative research which reveal, for example, the importance of the particular social and geographical context within which young people are embedded, the volume addresses young people’s attitudes towards the range of 'world religions’ as well as non-religious stances and offers an interdisciplinary approach through the different analytical perspectives of the contributors.

part One|42 pages

Setting the context

part Two|107 pages

Qualitative perspectives

chapter 4|16 pages

Sources of knowledge and authority

Religious education for young Muslims in a Birmingham comprehensive school

chapter 5|16 pages

Uniting two communities or creating a third community?

Research in a Northern Irish integrated school

chapter 6|20 pages

Cradling Catholics in secular Scotland

Research in a Scottish Roman Catholic high school

chapter 7|28 pages

The matter of context

The case of two community schools in Wales

chapter 8|25 pages

Religious diversity as a personal and social value

Impressions from a multicultural school in London

part Three|91 pages

Quantitative perspectives

part Four|46 pages

International engagement

chapter 14|18 pages

Young people and religious diversity

A Canadian perspective

chapter 15|12 pages

A collage of contexts

Young people and religious diversity in the United States

chapter 16|14 pages

Young people and religious diversity

A European perspective, with particular reference to Germany