Religion and Youth

Name: Religion and Youth
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780754667643
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By Pink Dandelion

Series: Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group

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Religion and Youth explores the future of religion amid young people's responses and the influence of existing religious forms on them. This accessible guide addresses key issues in the sociology of youth and religion from an international perspective, focusing on how young people create spirituality and religion for themselves. The book is structured around themes like generational legacy, surveys of belief and practice in the US, UK, and Australia, expression of spirituality, identity formation, faith transmission, and research methodology.
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This book is ideal for undergraduates studying religion and youth, postgraduates, academics, and practitioners interested in sociology of religion, youth studies, and contemporary spirituality.

What is the future of religion given the responses of young people? Offering a comprehensive international perspective on the sociology of youth and religion, this book reveals key geographical and organisational variables as well as the complexities of the engagement between youth and religion.

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What is the future of religion given the responses of young people? What impact do existing religious forms have on youth? What kind of spirituality and religion are young people creating for themselves?

Religion and Youth presents an accessible guide to the key issues in the study of youth and religion, including methodological perspectives. It provides a key teaching text in these areas for undergraduates, and a book of rigorous scholarship for postgraduates, academics, and practitioners.

Offering the first comprehensive international perspective on the sociology of youth and religion, this book reveals key geographical and organisational variables as well as the complexities of the engagement between youth and religion. The book is divided into six parts organised around central themes:

Generation X and their legacy;

The Big Picture – surveys of belief and practice in the USA, UK, and Australia;

Expression – how young people construct and live out their religion and spirituality;

Identity – the role of religion in shaping young people's sense of self and social belonging;

Transmission – passing on the faith (or not);

Researching Youth Religion – debates, issues, and techniques in researching young people's religion and spirituality.

James A. Beckford writes the Foreword and Linda Woodhead the Epilogue.

Series: Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group

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Religion and Youth

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Grace Davie of the University of Exeter warmly recommends this comprehensive and fact-rich book for understanding young people's religious lives. Church Times praises it as a remarkable volume offering wisdom on engaging youth culture and generational change within the Church. Religion Watch highlights its diverse contributions, ranging from trance clubbing to teenage witchcraft, illustrating the book’s stimulating breadth.

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ISBN: 9780754667643

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 July 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

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Edited by Sylvia Collins-Mayo

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 302

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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.

Religion and Youth