ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the geographical and social context in which young people are growing up shapes their attitudes to religious diversity and their perceptions of their own and other people's religious or non-religious positions. It reports data collected during visits to community schools in two locations: one the suburb of a large city in the south of Wales, the other a large village in rural mid-Wales. The chapter draws the profiles of the two schools based on information extracted from documents, such as Ofsted reports, documents relating to the school, and information available on the schools' websites. It describes the young people who took part in the focus group discussions in order to contextualize the data collected in the schools for the diversity project. The chapter results from an analysis of the group discussions which aims to reveal the extent to which pupils' attitudes to religion and diversity were shaped by the geographical and social contexts.
