Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada
Some Preliminary Findings
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i1.29924Keywords:
religious diversity, lived religion, gender, sexualityAbstract
Since 2012, we have been investigating Religion, Gender and Sexuality among Youth (18-25 year olds) in Canada (RGSY). Ours is a mixed-methods study that has used a web-based survey, interviews, and video diaries to collect data from 486 Canadian youth. Our project maps onto research that was done in the United Kingdom by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Sarah-Jane Page, and Michael Keenan. They kindly offered to let us use and modify their questionnaire for our own web-based survey and now we are at the point of having some interesting international comparisons. As well, researchers in several other countries are beginning similar studies.
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———. 2011. Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Delphy, Christine. 1993. “Rethinking Sex and Gender.” Women’s Studies International Forum 16 (1): 1-9.
Freitas, Donna. 2008. Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s College Campuses. London: Oxford University Press.
———. 2013. The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused about Intimacy. New York: Basic Books.
Gauthier, Francois, and Jean-Philippe Perreault, eds. 2008. Regard sur jeunes et religion au Québec. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
Germain, E. 1986. Des mots sur un silence: Les jeunes et la religion au Québec. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
Gudorf, Christine. 2001. “The Erosion of Sexual Dimorphism: Challenges to Religion and Religious Ethics.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69 (4): 863–91.
Jakobsen, Janet R., and Anne Pellegrini, eds. 2008. Secularisms. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lunau, Kate. 2009. “Youth Survey: Teens Lose Faith In Droves, Islam and Atheism Are on the Rise While Christianity Fades.” Maclean’s, April 7. http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/teens-lose-faith-in-droves/
Madge, Nicola, Peter J. Hemming, and Kevin Stenson. 2014. Youth on Religion: The Development, Negotiation and Impact of Faith and Non-faith Identity. London: Routledge.
National Study of Youth and Religion. http://www.youthandreligion.org/.
Ron, James. 2010. “Canada Adrift in Religious World: Canada’s Secular Youth Are Illiterate When Is [Sic] Comes to Religion, and That Will Not Serve Them Well in Dealing with the Wider World,” The Star, July 29. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2010/07/29/canada_adrift_in_religious_world.html
Shipley, Heather. 2016. “Apathy or Misunderstanding? Youth’s Reflections on their Religious Identity in Canada,” In Religion, Youth and Identity, edited by P. Beyer, P. Gareau and S. Bullivant, forthcoming.
Stark, Rodney. 1999. “Secularization, R.I.P.” Sociology of Religion 60 (3): 249–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711936.
Taylor, Charles. 2007. A Secular Age. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Young, Pamela Dickey. 2015. “Who Speaks for Religion?” In Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion? edited by L. G. Beaman and L. Van Arragon, 307–20. Leiden: Brill Academic Press.
Young, Pamela Dickey, and Heather Shipley. 2015. “Belief, Not Religion: Youth Negotiations of Religious Identity in Canada.” In Handbook of Child and Youth Studies, edited by J. Wyn and H. Cahill, 861–73. New York: Springer.
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Weber, Max, and Owen David. 2004 [1917]. “Science as a Vocation.” The Vocation Lectures. Indianapolis: Hackett.
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2016-04-12
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Shipley, H., Young, P., & Cuthbertson, I. (2016). Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada: Some Preliminary Findings. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 45(1), 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i1.29924
