Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity

ISBN-13: 9781138385337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Elisabeth Arweck

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Elisabeth Arweck is Principal Research Fellow in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU), Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, and the Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion. Her recent research has focused on young people’s attitudes to religious diversity and the religious socialisation and nurture of young people. Recent publications include a number of co-authored articles (with Eleanor Nesbitt) and (co-edited) volumes, such as Religion and Knowledge (with Mathew Guest, Ashgate 2013), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (with Chris Deacy, Ashgate 2009) and Reading Religion in Text and Context (with Peter Collins, Ashgate 2006). She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching New Religious Movements in the West (Routledge 2007) and co-author (with Peter Clarke) of New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press 1997).