The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults [electronic resource] : Contemporary (Non)Religiosity And Spirituality Through The Lens Of An International Mixed Method Study / edited by Peter Nynäs, Ariela Keysar, Janne Kontala, Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Mika T. Lassander, Marat Shterin, Sofia Sjö, Paul Stenner.

Part I: Defining the Motive, Methods, and Material. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Moving Beyond Dysfunctional Categories and Quasi-Objects. Towards a New Methodology -- Chapter 3. Young Adults as a Social Category. A Critical Assessment -- Part II: The Universals and Variance in Subjective Worldviews - Developing a Ground-Up Model. Chapter 4. A Relational Analysis of Subjective Worldviews - Different Ways of Looking at The Data -- Chapter 5. Religious Outliers and Ultra-Subjective Outlooks. The Case of 'Idiosyncratic' and 'Divided' Worldviews -- Chapter 6. "Who Relates to The Divine as Feminine?" - The Global Consensus of the Y-Generation -- Chapter 7. The Global Variation of Non-Religious Worldviews -- Chapter 8. Gendered Views - Male and Female Worldview Prototypes in the YARG Data -- Chapter 9. "Who Is Looking for The True Doctrine?" - Certainty Versus Uncertainty and the Fundamentalist and the Liquid Worldviews -- Part III: Thematic Chapters. Chapter 10. The Self-Transcendence vs. Self-Enhancement Dimension of Human Values. Religiosity and Volunteering in YARG Case Studies -- Chapter 11. The Open and the Closed Mind, or, the Rhetoric of Choice and Equality vs. Conservation and Religious Tradition -- Chapter 12. Contexts of Plurality and Uniformity - A Comparative Study of Subjective Life-World Orientations in India, China, Finland, and the USA -- Chapter 13. Social Capital and Lack Thereof - Discrimination and Subjective Wellbeing Among University Students -- Chapter 14. The Reflections and Effects of Discrimination in The Religious Subjectivities and Value Profiles Among Muslim Students in Israel and Turkey - A Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 15. The God and Gods of the 'Post-Socialist' Generation. 'Religious Resurgence' vs. Personal Life Worlds in Russia and Poland -- Part IV: Conclusions. Chapter 16. A Transnational View of the Life-Worlds of Young Adults -- Chapter 17. On Method, Concepts, and Results in Reference to Broader Academic Perspectives.

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This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey as well as other survey tools that look into people's social capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic and global cultural change.