Religion and Youth

About the Author

Sylvia Collins-Mayo is one of the leading British researchers in religion and youth, she is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University. She has contributed to numerous books and journals including 'Young People's Spirituality and the Meaning of Prayer', Religion and the Individual, Abby Day (ed.) (Ashgate, 2008), 'Raising Christian Consciousness: Creating Place', Journal of Youth and Theology (2007), and Making Sense of Generation Y, Sara Savage, Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Bob Mayo with Graham Cray (2006). She has also co-organised, with Pink Dandelion, the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group's Annual Conference (2008) which was based on the theme of Religion and Youth. Pink Dandelion is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and directs the work of the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke and the University of Birmingham. He edits Quaker Studies and acts as Series Editor for the Edwin Mellen series in Quaker Studies. His books include The Quakers: a very short introduction (2008), (with Jackie Leach Scully) Good and Evil: Quaker perspectives (2007), Introduction to Quakerism (2007), The Liturgies of Quakerism (2005), The Creation of Quaker Theory (2004), the co-authored Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope (2004) and The Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers: the silent revolution (1996). Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Richard Flory, Donald E. Miller, Tom Beaudoin, David Voas, Gordon Lynch, Christian Smith, Mandy Robbins, Leslie Francis, Michael Mason, David Tacey, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Denise Cush, Karenza Moore, Abby Day, Elizabeth Cooksey, Tessa Dooms, Pia Karlsson Minganti, Jeannine Heynes, Jasit Singh, Alana Harris, Nicholas M. Shepherd, R. Stephen Warner, Rhys H. Williams, Elisabeth Arweck, Eleanor Nesbitt, Mathew Guest, Leise Christensen, Duncan Dormor, Ida Marie Hoeg, Wolfgang Ilg, Kati Niemela, Phil Rankin, Sarah Dunlop, Philip Richter, Kristin Aune, Giselle Vincett, Sarah J. Abramson, Pink Dandelion, Linda Woodhead.