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Youth, Religion and Identity Workshop
The Workshop
Workshop Themes
Participants
Discussions
Videos
The Workshop
The workshop entitled "Youth, Religion, and Identity: A Canadian and International Workshop" was held at the University of Ottawa from October 16-18, 2014 and was organised by Peter Beyer, Paul Gareau and Spencer Bullivant. The goal of this workshop was to underscore and understand the dynamics youth face when engaging religion and identity formation. Researchers from Canada, Australia, Germany, and the UK spoke on how youth negotiate social forces and themselves shape their identities regarding religion.
To read the workshop report, please click here.
Workshop Themes
The workshop was organised around four themes:
- Institutional Norms and Perceptions
- Sexuality and Gender
- Diversity and Multiculturalism
- Religion and Spirituality
Participants
May Al-Fartousi |
Elisabeth Arweck |
Peter Beyer |
Reginald Bibby | |
Spencer Bullivant |
Amy Fisher |
Paul L. Gareau |
Anna Halafoff | |
Solange Lefebvre |
(Université de Montréal) |
Marie-Paule |
Géraldine Mossière | |
Rubina Ramji |
Giomny H. Ruiz |
Heather Shipley |
Dörthe Vieregge | |
Scott Wall |
Pamela Dickey Young |
Discussions
Each session of the Youth, Religion, and Identity workshop was followed by a lengthy group discussion. These allowed all participants of the workshop and the student observers to engage in a less formal discussion of the topics presented. What emerged was the remarkable similarity of the findings from each of the presenters. Youth were found to be incredibly fluid in how they developed and presented their respective identities. The various themes and issues that emerged included the increasing irrelevance of measurements of church participation, the usage of the “Spiritual, But Not Religious” category of many research subjects, the implicit normativities that come with studying youth at the conceptual level, the effects of increasing diasporic communities throughout each of the countries represented, and the potential of reconceptualising youth ambivalence as a form of agency rather than disinterest.
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| Discussion 1 Institutional Norms and Perceptions |
Discussion 2 Religion and Spirituality |
Discussion 3 Diversity and Multiculturalism |
Discussion 4 Sexuality and Gender |
Videos
| Videos | Presentation Titles | Themes |
Keynote Lecture | ||
Elisabeth Arweck | Religious Diversity in the UK: How the Attitudes and Views of 13–16 Year-Old Students Interact | Keynote Speaker |
Presentations | ||
| Minority within Minority: Shi’i Muslim Young Girls’ Social Worlds Within Canada and Abroad | Sexuality and Gender |
| Religion, Youth and Life Stages: Religious Expression of Young Adults of Immigrant Families in Canada as They Pass from Young to Mature Adulthood | Diversity and Multiculturalism |
| So You Think You Are Religious or Spiritual But Not Religious: So What? | Religion and Spirituality |
Spencer Bullivant | Youths at a Nonreligious Summer Camp: Creating a Nonreligious Identity in the United States | Institutional Norms and Perceptions Non-religion Identity United States |
Part 1 | Part 2 | A Crisis of Masculinity: The Negotiations of Gender for Catholic ‘Evangelical’ Youth in a Secular Canada | Sexuality and Gender |
| 'Whatever': Religion, Youth, and Identity in 21st Century Australia | Institutional Norms and Perceptions |
| Youth and Religion in Quebec | Religion and Spirituality |
| The Identity, Spirituality, and Religion of Young Quebecois | Ethics and Religious Culture Program (ERC) |
| Representations on Gender and Matrimonial Practices among Young Practitioners in the Quebecois Religious Landscape: Sexual Ethics as a Source of Distinction | Sexuality and Gender |
| Identity and Youth in a Multicultural Context: How Second Generation Muslims Grow up Canadian | Diversity and Multiculturalism |
Part 1 | Cubanity Under the Lived Religion Approach: Dialogue between Gods and National Identity among Young Cuban First Generation Migrants in Canada | Institutional Norms and Perceptions |
| Apathy or Misunderstanding?: Youth’s Reflections on their Religious Identity in Canada | Diversity and Multiculturalism |
| If the Guy is Correct, I Don’t Care About What Religion He Is’: Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Young People and Religious Diversity in Daily Life | Diversity and Multiculturalism |
| Beyond the Congregation: Accounting for Factors of Religious Change among Evangelical, Chinese Canadian Young Adults | Religion and Spirituality |
| Religious Influences on Sexual Values and Sexual Practices among Youth in Canada | Sexuality and Gender |
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Le Berkley Center at Georgetown University a été créé au sein du bureau de John J. DeGioia, Président de Georgetown, en mars 2006. Le centre a été conçu afin de miser sur les forces de Georgetown: l'excellence académique; son emplacement à Washington, DC; sa portée internationale et sa tradition catholique et jésuite d'ouverture aux autres religions et au vaste monde séculier. Le généreux soutien de William R. Berkley, un membre du conseil d'administration de l'université, a permis la croissance rapide du centre.
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