Young People and Religion and Spirituality in Europe: A Complex Picture

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Giselle Vincett ◽  
Sarah Dunlop ◽  
Kornelia Sammet ◽  
Alexander Yendell
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Complex Picture

Young People and Religion and Spirituality in Europe: A Complex Picture

2015 ◽  
pp. 889-902
Author(s):  
Giselle Vincett ◽  
Sarah Dunlop ◽  
Kornelia Sammet ◽  
Alexander Yendell
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Complex Picture

Faith and Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-221
Author(s):  
Melinda Lundquist Denton ◽  
Richard Flory
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter focuses on family as a key institutional setting within which religion and spirituality are formed. The authors explore how marriage and parenthood are tied to religiousness among the young people in the study. The authors first investigate the role of religion in leading young people to six different family pathways: married with children, married without children, cohabiting with children, cohabiting without children, single with children, and single without children. They then examine how these different stages of family formation affect the religious lives of the young people in the study. Of particular interest is the question of whether marriage and parenthood contribute to higher rates of religious retention among emerging adults.

scholarly journals To crash on the bus (or sit on needles and pins)? – buses and subways in teenage everyday geographies

2019 ◽  
Vol 197 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-294
Author(s):  
Maja Lagerqvist
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Complex Picture

When young people travel, they are often very dependent on public transport or parents. This study uses interviews with 16–19 years old teenagers in Stockholm to investigate their everyday experiences of public transit. The paper explores the experiences of buses and subways, here conceptualized as mobile places, to understand how they shape teenagers’ daily life. Understanding teenagers’ experiences of public transportation is part of understanding their everyday life, struggles, and possibilities to be mobile and participate in society. It is also a step towards ensuring that they find public transportation inclusive, safe, and worth traveling with today and in the future. Conceptually, the analysis focuses on how these mobile places are experienced as providing weights or reliefs to the everyday and if, how and when they may be places of interaction or retreat, addressing two needs in teenagers’ personal being and development. The study shows how various experiences of traveling with buses and subways shape how the teenagers feel, and how they make strategic choices in relation to this. A quite manifold, varying, and complex picture of public transportation arises, with stories of wellbeing, comfort, discomfort, and exclusion, and with sharp differences between girls and boys, and between buses and subways. These nuances are essential in planning and evaluation of transport systems in regard to how, when, where, or for whom public transport can be a part of social sustainability, as public policies often assume. 

scholarly journals Changes in the geographical distribution of youth poverty and social exclusion in EU member countries between 2008 and 2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Šoltés ◽  
Mária Vojtková ◽  
Tatiana Šoltésová
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
The Eu

AbstractWith respect to the fulfillment of the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, the threat of poverty and social exclusion has not been sufficiently reduced in the European Union (EU) over the past decade, and large regional disparities persist. Young people are the most affected by the problems of income poverty, material deprivation and labour market exclusion, which are the three dimensions of poverty and social exclusion. In this article, we focus on comparing the EU countries in terms of the three listed dimensions, while revealing similarities and differences in the incidence and severity of these social phenomena among youth. In addition to measuring dimensions by the currently used AROPE (at risk of poverty or social exclusion) rate, we also use a larger spectrum of relevant indicators for a more comprehensive analysis. While the AROPE aggregate indicator uses the same methodology for the population of young people as for the whole population, our approach includes indicators that are specific to young people. We assume that all dimensions affect each other, so we apply multidimensional statistical methods such as principal components and cluster analysis to analyse them. These methods have revealed that some dimensions affect poverty and social exclusion to a greater extent and others to a lesser extent than might appear to be the case, based on AROPE’s partial rates. Moreover, we present quantified integral indicators that together with the results of the multivariate methods, provide a rather complex picture concerning the geographical distribution of poverty and social exclusion, as well as their dimensions in the EU, for the population of persons aged 18–24 years in 2008 and 2017.

scholarly journals On studying religion, media and the young people

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 138-149
Author(s):  
Nina Maskulin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Media ◽  
Good And Evil

This paper charts a unique and important phase of media use and meaning-making processes among young people during the first decade of twenty-first century. The rapid changes in media content and consumption have brought about a transformation which impacts on forms of religion and spirituality for young people. In this article I review four studies on the field of religion and the media. Key concepts of the construction of individuality and the narrative of personal biographies are found in all of them. The role of Evangelical Christianity and the core narrative of the apocalypse, as well as the clear polarities of good and evil are analysed in two of the studies which give a description of the global and transnational dimension, while the other two put more emphasis on the local, cultural and historical dimensions. The significance of the transnational character of religious narratives, the media and popular culture is analysed in reference to a long period of ethnographical inquiry and detailed documentations of the cultural discourses associated with musical subcultures as well as the locality and new media conventions approach in the studies of existential and religious expressions in the mediated environment. 

Young People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Botterill ◽  
Gurchathen Sanghera ◽  
Peter Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Youth Media ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Muslim Identities

Until recently, much academic and policy research about Muslim youth and politics tended to focus on issues of radicalisation and extremism (Bakker, 2006; Hemmingsen and Andreasen, 2007; Kuhle and Lindekilde, 2010; Spalek and McDonald, 2011), mirroring the political and policy landscape on this issue. While some of these studies attempt to disrupt popular conceptions of the link between Muslim youth and radicalisation, others have assisted in fuelling perceptions of Muslim youth as taking a more politicised stance on religious belief than their parents (Policy Exchange, 2007, cited in Field, 2011: 160). Furthermore, some have attempted to categorise Muslim youth into those who are ‘moderate’, ‘apartist’ and ‘alienated’ (Field, 2011) and, while painting a more complex picture, remain rather rigid and do little to challenge homogenised representations of Muslim youth. Media representation of Muslim youth as either politically apathetic, radicalised or vulnerable to radicalisation further contributes to misconceptions about young Muslim identities and their political agency. Such representations are gendered and embodied, for example with Muslim young men being read as the Asian ‘new folk devils’ (Alexander, 2000), as ‘militant and aggressive’ (Archer, 2003: 81) or as academic and effeminate (Hopkins, 2006).

Developing theory-based risk-reduction interventions for HIV-positive young people with haemophilia

Haemophilia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Schultz ◽  
R. B. Butler ◽  
L. Mckernan ◽  
R. Boelsen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Hiv Positive

Young People, Comics and Reading

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Cedeira Serantes
Keyword(s):  
Young People
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