Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective

Elisabeth Arweck’s research focuses on religion, young people, and education and includes topics such as religious socialisation, religious education (in school and other contexts), religion in families, values, religious communities, religious diversity/multiculturalism, and migration/immigration. Her recent research has focused on young people’s attitudes to religious diversity and the religious socialisation and nurture of young people. Recent publications include a number of (co-authored) articles and (co-edited) volumes, such as Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity (Routledge 2017), Education about Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies (with Anna Halafoff and Donald Boisvert, Routledge 2016), Religion and Knowledge (with Mathew Guest, Ashgate 2012), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (with Chris Deacy, Ashgate2009), and Reading Religion in Text and Context (with Peter Collins, Ashgate 2006). She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching New Religious Movements in the West (Routledge 2007) and co-author (with Peter Clarke) of New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press 1997).Heather Shipley’s research focuses on the intersections of religious and sexually diverse identities, as they are constructed, managed, and experienced in education, the media, and the law. Recent publications include Identities Under Construction (with P. Dickey Young, McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming), “Christianity, Gender and Identity among Canadian Youth” (with P. Dickey Young) in The Brill Handbook of Global Christianity (edited by S. Hunt, Brill Academic Press 2015), “Belief, Not Religion: Youth Negotiations ofReligious Identity in Canada”(with P. Dickey Young) in Handbook on Child and Youth Studies (edited by J. Wyn and H. Cahill, Springer 2014); Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices (editor, Brill Academic Press 2014), and Religion and Sexuality: Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance (edited, with P. Dickey Young and T. Trothen UBC Press 2015).

• Preface - 1. Religious Belonging in Family, school and Ethnic Communities: Changes in Christian-Catholic Second Generations in Italy (Roberta Ricucci).- 2. The ‘Hidden Christians’ of the UK University Campus (Mathew Guest).- 3. A Cycle of Religious (Il)literacy Beginning with Students Today (Alice Chan).- 4. Bridging into Adulthood: Continuity and Discontinuity in Religious Identity among Second Generation Canadians of Diverse Religious Backgrounds (Peter Beyer).- 5. Christian Identities, Theologies of Religion, and Attitudes towards Religious Diversity: A Study among 13- to 15-year-old Students across the UK (Leslie Francis).- 6. Civil Society Engagement and Identity Formation: Narrative Identities of Young Muslims Active in Voluntary Associations in Switzerland (Amir Sheikhzadegan).- 7. Filipino Youth’s Sacred Experiences (Jeane C. Peracullo).- 8. Young Nones: The Lives of Young People of ‘No Religion’ (Simeon Wallis).- 9. The Views and Attitudes of Religious and Non-Religious Young People: Findings from a Research Project in the UK (Elisabeth Arweck).- 10. Portraits of the ‘Shy Hope’: A Phenomenological Perspective on Youth Spirituality in the Australian Context (Phil Daughtry).- 11. The Making of a Gay Muslim in Malaysia and Britain (Shanon Shah Mohd Sidik).- 12. Religious Orthodoxy and New Feminism among Pious Women: A Cross-Religious Reading between Muslim and Pentecostal Youth (Géraldine Mossière).- 13. Religion of Young Women from Turkish Migrant Families in Germany (Kornelia Sammet).- 14. Experiencing Religion and Sexual Diversity in Ontario’s Schools (Heather Shipley).- 15. The Religious Socialization of Young Muslims in Québec (Josiane LeGall).