Freedoms, Faiths and Futures
Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity
Published on 6. May 2021
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-350-17956-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious, spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious, spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities?
Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world.
This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.
Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world.
This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.
Reviews / Votes
Freedom, Faiths and Futures by Singleton et al. is among the best presentations of research into the religious worldview of generation Z. The authors amplify the voices of young people, providing an analysis of data that gives expression to these voices, rather than dampening them through methodological rigour. These are voices that need to be heard. * Modern Believing * This book offers a thorough investigation of the perspectives of young Australians and is a must-read for scholars exploring youth and religion. * Sarah-Jane Page, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University, UK * Freedoms, Faiths and Futures uses data gathered from Australian teens to chart a new course in the study of religion/worldviews. Using categories beyond traditional religious identities, it provides insights into what Australian teens are thinking and offers a new typology for understanding systems of meaning. * Pamela Dickey Young, Professor of Religion, Queen's University, Canada * A topical and significant book ... The authors have presented valuable research data in a convincing narrative that gives voice to the young people that they have interviewed, while contributing to the growing literature on religious diversity in the sociology of religion. * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-17956-1 (9781350179561)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Andrew Singleton | Mary Lou Rasmussen | Anna Halafoff
Freedoms, Faiths and Futures
Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity
E-Book
04/2021
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€35.49
Available for download
Persons
Andrew Singleton is Professor of Sociology and Social Research at Deakin University, Australia.
Anna Halafoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.
Mary Lou Rasmussen is Professor of Sociology at Australian National University, Australia.
Gary Bouma was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Monash University, Australia.
Anna Halafoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.
Mary Lou Rasmussen is Professor of Sociology at Australian National University, Australia.
Gary Bouma was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Monash University, Australia.
Content
1. The Future Makers: Teens in the Age of Diversity
2. Doing Away with our Sunday Best: Teenagers and the Remaking of Religion in Australia
3. Mind, Body, Spirit: Teenagers and Spirituality
4. A Personal Point of View: Discovering Teenage Worldviews
5. 'A Higher Order Out There': Seekers and the Spiritual but not Religious
6. Immanent Gods: This Worldly and Indifferent Teens
7. Awash but not Adrift in a Sea of Diversity: Teen Attitudes to Religious Diversity
8. Taking it to School: Religious Literacy, Religious Instruction and General Religious Education
9. Harry Potter, Homophobia and Human Rights: Teens talk about Sexuality Education, Religious Exemptions and Gay Rights
10. Conclusion
2. Doing Away with our Sunday Best: Teenagers and the Remaking of Religion in Australia
3. Mind, Body, Spirit: Teenagers and Spirituality
4. A Personal Point of View: Discovering Teenage Worldviews
5. 'A Higher Order Out There': Seekers and the Spiritual but not Religious
6. Immanent Gods: This Worldly and Indifferent Teens
7. Awash but not Adrift in a Sea of Diversity: Teen Attitudes to Religious Diversity
8. Taking it to School: Religious Literacy, Religious Instruction and General Religious Education
9. Harry Potter, Homophobia and Human Rights: Teens talk about Sexuality Education, Religious Exemptions and Gay Rights
10. Conclusion