Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Sylvia Collins-Mayo; Part I Generations and Their Legacy: The expressive communalism of post-boomer religion in the USA, Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller; Religion, pop culture and 'virtual faith', Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Tom Beaudoin; Explaining change over time in religious involvement, David Voas; 'Generation X' religion: a critical evaluation, Gordon Lynch. Part II The Big Picture: Surveys of Belief and Practice: On 'moralistic therapeutic deism' as US teenagers' actual, tacit, de facto, religious faith, Christian Smith; The teenage religion and values survey in England and Wales, Mandy Robbins and Leslie Francis; The spirituality of young Australians, Michael Mason. Part III Expression: What spirituality means to young adults, David Tacey; Shamanic practices and social capital among native youths in the Brazilian Amazon, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen; Teenage witchcraft in Britain, Denise Cush; Exploring symbolic, emotional and spiritual expression amongst 'crasher clubbers', Karenza Moore; 'Believing in belonging': an exploration of young people's social contexts and constructions of belief, Abby Day; The role of religion in the sexual lives of teens, Elizabeth Cooksey and Tessa Dooms. Part IV Identity: Islamic revival and young women's negotiations on gender and racism, Pia Karlsson Minganti; Engaging with teenage girls' understandings of religion and gender, Jeannine Heynes; British Sikh youth: identity, hair and the turban, Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Sylvia Collins-Mayo; Part I Generations and Their Legacy: The expressive communalism of post-boomer religion in the USA, Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller; Religion, pop culture and 'virtual faith', Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Tom Beaudoin; Explaining change over time in religious involvement, David Voas; 'Generation X' religion: a critical evaluation, Gordon Lynch. Part II The Big Picture: Surveys of Belief and Practice: On 'moralistic therapeutic deism' as US teenagers' actual, tacit, de facto, religious faith, Christian Smith; The teenage religion and values survey in England and Wales, Mandy Robbins and Leslie Francis; The spirituality of young Australians, Michael Mason. Part III Expression: What spirituality means to young adults, David Tacey; Shamanic practices and social capital among native youths in the Brazilian Amazon, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen; Teenage witchcraft in Britain, Denise Cush; Exploring symbolic, emotional and spiritual expression amongst 'crasher clubbers', Karenza Moore; 'Believing in belonging': an exploration of young people's social contexts and constructions of belief, Abby Day; The role of religion in the sexual lives of teens, Elizabeth Cooksey and Tessa Dooms. Part IV Identity: Islamic revival and young women's negotiations on gender and racism, Pia Karlsson Minganti; Engaging with teenage girls' understandings of religion and gender, Jeannine Heynes; British Sikh youth: identity, hair and the turban, Jasjit Singh; 'A place to grow spiritually and socially': the experiences of young pilgrims to Lourdes, Alana Harris; Religious socialisation and a reflexive habitus: Christian youth groups as sites for identity work, Nicholas M. Shepherd. Part V Transmission: The role of families and religious institutions in transmitting faith among Christians, Muslims, and Hindus in the USA, R. Stephen Warner and Rhys H. Williams; Growing up in a mixed-faith family: intact or fractured chain of memory?, Elisabeth Arweck and Eleanor Nesbitt; Socialisation and spiritual capital: what difference do clergy families make?, Mathew Guest; Protestant confirmation in European perspective, Leise Christensen, Duncan Dormor, Ida Marie HA,eg, Wolfgang Ilg and Kati NiemelA... Part VI Researching Youth Religion: A question of belief, Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Phil Rankin; Quantitative methods, David Voas; Visual methods, Sarah Dunlop and Philip Richter; Gender matters: doing feminist research on religion and youth, Kristin Aune and Giselle Vi
