ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways in which traditional questions from the sociology of religion have been renewed. Suggestions for further methodological development, with theoretical implications, are made. Even though young people in Western societies are secularized in terms of participation and traditional beliefs, institutionalized religion somehow seems to constitute the model to which the respondent relates. The chapter presents the large-scale quantitative Swedish surveys among youth and young adults where they strived to develop questions to enable a richer image of ordinary young people's relation to religion. In the school survey, a religiosity index was constructed using the items on religious practice along with belief in a personal god and self-definition. The regression analysis shows that along with socio-economic background variables such as gender, parent's educational level, and study programme, it actually was the pupil's religiosity that proved relevant for their attitudes towards Religious Education. The chapter demonstrates some examples which are useful to capture new landscape of religious socialization.
