Annual Review Of The Sociology Of Religion: Youth And Religion

Youth and Religion Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Editors Enzo Pace, Luigi Berzano and Giuseppe Giordan Editorial Board Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa) Anthony Blasi (Tennessee State University) Roberto Cipriani (Università di Roma Tre) Xavier Costa (Universidad de Valencia) Franco Garelli (Università di Torino) Gustavo Guizzardi (Università di Padova) Dick Houtman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) Solange Lefebvre (Université de Montréal) Otto Maduro (Drew University) Patrick Michel (CNRS, Paris) Ari Pedro Oro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) Adam Possamai (University of Western Sydney) Ole Riis (Agder University) Susumu Shimazono (University of Tokyo) William H. Swatos, Jr. (Augustana College) Jan-Paul Willaime (EPHE, Sorbonne) Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig) Linda Woodhead (Lancaster University) Fenggang Yang (Purdue University) Sinisa Zrinscak (University of Zagreb) VOLUME 1 Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Volume 1: Youth and Religion Edited by Giuseppe Giordan LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 This book is printed on acid-free paper. ISSN 1877-5233 ISBN 978 90 04 18790 0 Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................. Articles Differential Reconstruction of Religions among Second Generation Immigrant Youth in Canada .................................. Peter Beyer vii 1 Youth, Spirituality, and Religion in Canada and Quebec .......... Solange Lefebvre in collaboration with K. Gandhar Chakravarty 29 Brazilian University Students and Religion .................................. Ari Pedro Oro and Mauro Meirelles 65 Developments in Spirituality among Youth in Australia and Other Western Societies ............................................................... Michael Mason, Andrew Singleton and Ruth Webber The Religiosity of Youth in Australia and Thailand .................... Philip Hughes Youth and Religion in Modern China: A Sketch of Social and Political Developments ................................................................. Fenggang Yang 89 115 147 Young People and Religion in France ........................................... Céline Béraud and Jean-Paul Willaime 163 Youth and Religion in Finland ........................................................ Kati Niemelä 193 (Dis)engagements with Christianity amongst Young People in England and Scotland ................................................................... Giselle Vincett and Sylvia Collins-Mayo 219 vi contents German Youth: Neither Participants nor Partakers in Religion? .......................................................................................... Gert Pickel 251 The Quest for Religious Purity in New Age, Evangelicalism and Islam. Religious Renditions of Dutch Youth and the Luckmann Legacy ...........................................