ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the role of religion among university students. There are public discourses on religion that come through the media, and these are often complex and multifaceted. It is probably possible to undertake the necessary detailed analysis of various media outlets to discover what these public discourses are. For most ordinary people, however, the media only provides one source of their own thinking and talking about religion in general. It is perhaps a truism to suggest that in the multi-cultural context of the UK in the early twenty-first century, there is no longer a dominant religious discourse. Much of the challenge to secularization theory has been framed within a narrative that says that secularization never really happened, that religion was transformed and did not really die out, or decline, at all. The most widely used, methodology for exploring the understanding of religion among those who are not obviously religious is the unstructured interview, or some form of narrative analysis.
