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Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada
The Project
Project Aims
Research Team
Advisory Committee
Events
Publications
Collaborations
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The Project
The Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada (RGSY) project collects information about how young adults (aged 18-25) living in Canada understand their religiosity, their gender, their sexuality and the relationships among these three categories. Data is compiled in three ways: from a web-based survey (closed July 2013); from interviews, and from video diaries (conducted 2013-2014).
The information collected through this project will be analyzed and presented to a range of audiences (e.g. the general public, policy makers, groups of youth and youth leaders, religious leaders and groups). The study builds on resources from Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip's Religion,Youth and Sexuality research project.
The study is funded by the Religion and Diversity Project.
Click the following link to read the final report for the project: Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada: Summary and Selected Findings
Project Aims
The Religion, Gender and Sexuality among Youth in Canada project has four primary aims:
- To explore the constructions and management strategies undertaken by young adults (aged 18-25), both religious and non-religious concerning their sexual identities, values, and choices.
- To examine the significant social, cultural, and political factors that inform the above-mentioned processes.
- To study how young adults manage their religious, sexual, and gender identities.
- To generate rich qualitative and quantitative data that will contribute new knowledge and to academic and policy debates on religion, youth, sexuality, and gender.
For more information on the RGSY project aims, please click here.
Research Team
Pamela Dickey Young, Principal Investigator
Heather Shipley, Co-investigator
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Research Assistant
For more information on the RGSY Research Team, please click here.
Advisory Committee
Peter Beyer
Marie-Paule Martel-Reny
Beesan Sarrouh
For more information on the RGSY Advisory Committee, please click here.
Events
| Lectures | ||
| August 19-21, 2016 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
| August 19-21, 2016 | Heather Shipley “Navigating Nonreligion, Gender and Sexuality: Intersections and Reflections,” Identities Under Construction: Youth,(Non)Religion, Sexuality and Diversity in the UK and Canada. Association for the Sociology of Religion, Seattle. | |
| May 4-6, 2016 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
October 3, 2015 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
September 28, 2015 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
June 1, 2015 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
May 31-June 2, 2015 | Heather Shipley | |
November 3, 2014 | Heather Shipley | |
November 1, 2014 | Heather Shipley. | |
October 31, 2014 | Heather Shipley | |
October 18, 2014 | Heather Shipley Youth, Religion and Identity: A Canadian and International Workshop"Apathy or Misunderstanding? Youth's Reflections on their Religious Identity in Canada"University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario | |
October 17, 2014 | Pamela Dickey Young Youth, Religion and Identity: A Canadian and International Workshop "Religious Influences on Sexual Values and Sexual Practices among Youth in Canada"University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario | |
October 16-18, 2014 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
October 16-18, 2014 | Heather Shipley | |
May 25-27, 2014 | Heather Shipley | |
May 26, 2014 | Heather Shipley Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Religion & Immigration"Belief not Religion: Youth Negotiations of Religious Identity in Canada"Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario | |
November 5, 2013 |
Pamela Dickey Young | |
November 5, 2013 |
Heather Shipley |
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November 4-6, 2013 | Pamela Dickey Young | |
November 4-6, 2013 | Heather Shipley “The spaces in between: religious and sexual intersections in education,” Whose Religion? Education about religion in public schools., University of Ottawa | |
October 31, 2013 |
Pamela Dickey Young |
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April 23-26, 2013 | Heather Shipley | |
September 3, 2012 |
Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley. Religion, Youth and Sexuality: Stories from the United Kingdom and Canada"Religion, Gender and Sexuality among Youth in Canada"University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
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Publications
Dickey Young, Pamela. “Informal Sex Education: Forces that Shape Youth Identities and Practices,” in Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People, eds. Andrew Yip and Fida Sanjakdar. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming. |
Dickey Young, Pamela. “Influences of Religion on the Sexual Attitudes and Practices of Canadian Youth: the Case of Premarital Sex,” in Youth, Religion and Identity, eds. Peter Beyer, Paul Gareau and Spencer Bullivant, forthcoming. |
| Shipley, Heather. 2015. "Apathy or Misunderstanding?: Youth's Reflections on their Religious Identity in Canada." In Religion, Youth and Identity, edited by Peter Beyer, Paul Gareau, and Spencer Bullivant, forthcoming. |
| Shipley, Heather, and Pamela Dickey Young. 2015. "Religion, Youth and Queer Identities in Canada." In Sexual Diversity and Religions, edited by Martin Jaime. PEG/Diversities Publishing, accepted. |
| Shipley, Heather and Pamela Dickey Young. 2015. “Christianity, Gender and Identity among Canadian Youth,” in The Brill Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Themes and Developments in Culture, Politics and Society, ed. S. Hunt. Leiden: Brill Academic Press: 327-345. |
| Shipley, Heather. 2015. "The Spaces in Between: Religion, Sexual Identity, Media and Education in Ontario." In Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion?, edited by Lori G. Beaman, and Leo Van Arragon, 211-230. Leiden: Brill Academic Press. |
| Shipley, Heather, and Pamela Dickey Young. 2014. "Values and Attitudes: How are Youth Integrating Religion and Sexuality in their Daily Lives?" In Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices, edited by Heather Shipley, 276-294. "International Studies in Religion and Society." Leiden: Brill Academic Press. |
| Shipley, Heather, and Pamela Dickey Young. “Values and Practices: How are Youth Integrating Religion and Sexuality in their Daily Lives?” in Globalized Religion and Sexuality: Contexts, Contestations, Voices. ed. H. Shipley. “International Studies in Religion and Society,” Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2014, 276-294. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey.“Influences of Religion on the Sexual Attitudes and Practices of Canadian Youth: the Case of Premarital Sex,” in Youth, Religion and Identity, eds. Peter Beyer, Paul Gareau and Spencer Bullivant, forthcoming. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey. “Informal Sex Education: Forces that Shape Youth Identities and Practices,” in Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People, eds. Andrew Yip and Fida Sanjakdar. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey, Heather Shipley and Ian Alexander Cuthbertson. “Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada: Some Preliminary Findings.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45/1 (2016): 17-26. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey. 2015. "Religious Influences on Sexual Values and Sexual Practices among Youth in Canada." In Religion, Youth and Identity, edited by Peter Beyer, Paul Gareau, and Spencer Bullivant, forthcoming. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey, and Heather Shipley. 2015. "'A Protestant with a seatbelt, I guess': Christianity, Gender and Identity." In The Brill Handbook of Global Christianity, edited by Stephen Hunt. Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Press, forthcoming. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey and Heather Shipley. 2015. “Belief, not religion: Youth Negotiations of Religious Identity in Canada,” in Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, eds. J. Wyn and H. Cahill. Singapore: Springer: 861-873. |
| Young, Pamela Dickey. 2015. "Who Speaks for Religion?" In Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion?, edited by Lori G. Beaman, and Leo Van Arragon, 307-320. Leiden: Brill Academic Press. |
Collaborations
| Taylor, Yvette, and Heather Shipley. 2014. "Making Space Across Religion, Gender and Sexuality: Canada-UK Connections." The Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, March 2, 2014, http://weekscentreforsocialandpolicyresearch.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/making-space-across-religion-gender-and-sexuality-canada-uk-connections/ |
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For more information on the Religion, Gender and Sexuality Among Youth in Canada project including results, news and events, and contact information, please visit the RGSY website. 
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