Youth on Religion : The Development, Negotiation and Impact of Faith and Non-Faith Identity
Youth on Religion : The Development, Negotiation and Impact of Faith and Non-Faith Identity
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Author(s): Madge, Nicola
ISBN No.: 9780415696708
Pages: 244
Year: 201401
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 76.64
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

'Madge (Child Psychology, Brunel Univ., UK) and her coauthors offer an actor-centric approach in this welcome addition to a timely and important topic. The book's language is theoretical, but the volume will be of interest to students specializing in the sociology of religion or sociology of youth. Summing Up: Recommended.' - Y. Nesen-Cassino, Montclair State University, in CHOICE, November 2014. 'This unique book is the result of the Youth on Religion project - a major research effort in Britain concerning the prevalence of both faith and non-faith among young British people.Youth on Religionis the only holistic examination of the entire range of beliefs (including non-belief) among contemporary British youth.


The scholarship in this definitive study is outstanding, and the book is sure to have wide appeal.' -Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA 'Youth on Religionpresents findings from a large-scale, mixed methods project funded in the Youth phase of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme investigating young people's religious identities. The data are framed by classic sociological theorizing. The authors highlight the need for further research seeking teachers' parents' and communities' views as well in order to check the gap between rhetoric and reality. Such work could nuance the contrast between the West and other places drawn by participants and adopted by the team. [This;STRONG>Ralph W.


Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA 'Youth on Religionpresents findings from a large-scale, mixed methods project funded in the Youth phase of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme investigating young people's religious identities. The data are framed by classic sociological theorizing. The authors highlight the need for further research seeking teachers' parents' and communities' views as well in order to check the gap between rhetoric and reality. Such work could nuance the contrast between the West and other places drawn by participants and adopted by the team. [This] is an insightful, thorough and rich new resource on young people's religious and non-religious identites. The concluding call to listne to young people's own views on what will work in terms of Religious Education, cohesion and integration is a powerful one." - Rebecca Catto, Coventry University, UK, Sociology Journal "YOR provides an excellent resource on a generation in transition amid a cultural context that at once provides a secularizing tendency to religiosity and an emergence of religious diversity through globalization and immigration.


In this context of change, religion presents necessary community cohesion and divisive conflict." Patricia Snell Herzog, University of Arkansas, USA.


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