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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.
‘This volume makes particularly valuable and original contributions to the public debate about religious diversity not only because it tackles such a ‘hot button’ topic but also because its approach foregrounds young people’s own opinions and attitudes. Contributors are also careful to clarify the theoretical debates in which their empirical investigations are grounded and the methods that they used to collect information. Readers will appreciate the book’s extensive scope as well as its intensive drilling down into robust findings about young people and their attitudes to religious diversity.’
James A. Beckford, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick
Part 1. Setting the Context
1. The ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity’ Project in the Context of Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) Research
Robert Jackson & Ursula McKenna
2. The Qualitative Strand: Listening in Depth
Elisabeth Arweck & Julia Ipgrave
3. The Quantitative Strand: An Individual Differences Approach
Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Mandy Robbins
Part 2. Qualitative perspectives
4. Sources of Knowledge and Authority: Religious Education for Young Muslims in a Birmingham Comprehensive School
Julia Ipgrave
5. Uniting Two Communities or Creating a Third Community? Research in a Northern Irish Integrated School
Julia Ipgrave
6. Cradling Catholics in Secular Scotland: Research in a Scottish Roman Catholic High School
Julia Ipgrave
7. The Matter of Context: The Case of Two Community Schools in Wales
Elisabeth Arweck
8. Religious Diversity as a Personal and Social Value: Impressions from a Multicultural School in London
Elisabeth Arweck
Part 3. Quantitative Perspectives
9. Does RE Work and Contribute to the Common Good in England?
Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Ursula McKenna
10. Testing the ‘Worlds apart’ Thesis: Catholic and Protestant Schools in Northern Ireland
Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Philip Barnes
11. Growing up Catholic in Scotland: Not One Catholic Community but Three
Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Peter Neil
12. Schools with a Religious Character and Community Cohesion in Wales
Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Tania ap Siôn
13. The Personal and Social Significance of Diverse Religious Affiliation in Multi-faith London
Leslie J Francis & Gemma Penny
Part 4. International Engagement
14. Young People and Religious Diversity: A Canadian Perspective
Lori G. Beaman, Peter Beyer and Christine L. Cusack
15. A Collage of Contexts: Young People and Religious Diversity in the United States
Mary Elizabeth Moore
16. Young People and Religious Diversity: A European Perspective, with Particular Reference to Germany
Alexander Yendell
This book series emanates from the largest research programme on religion in Europe today - the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme which has invested in over seventy-five research projects. Thirty-two separate disciplines are represented looking at religion across the world, many with a contemporary and some with an historical focus. This international, multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary book series includes monographs, paperback textbooks and edited research collections drawn from this leading research programme.