Nicola Madge is Professor of Child Psychology in the Centre for Child and Youth Research at Brunel University, London. She is the author of a wide range of publications on children and young people’s issues that include religion, ethnicity, disability, disadvantage and self-harm. She is the Principal Investigator for the Youth On Religion study on which this book is based.Peter J. Hemming is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches sociology of education and childhood studies. Peter’s research interests include children and young people, schools, power and identity, faith-based education, citizenship studies and sociology of religion. He is also a former primary school teacher.Kevin Stenson is Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and London Metropolitan University. His research interests include crime, policing, community safety, ethnicity, culture and religion.

'Madge (Child Psychology, Brunel Univ., UK) and her coauthors offer an actor-centric approach in this welcome addition to a timely and important topic... The book's language is theoretical, but the volume will be of interest to students specializing in the sociology of religion or sociology of youth. Summing Up: Recommended.' - Y. Nesen-Cassino, Montclair State University, in CHOICE, November 2014.'This unique book is the result of the Youth on Religion project – a major research effort in Britain concerning the prevalence of both faith and non-faith among young British people. Youth on Religion is the only holistic examination of the entire range of beliefs (including non-belief) among contemporary British youth. The scholarship in this definitive study is outstanding, and the book is sure to have wide appeal.' - Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA'Youth on Religion presents findings from a large-scale, mixed methods project funded in the Youth phase of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme investigating young people's religious identities... The data are framed by classic sociological theorizing... The authors highlight the need for further research seeking teachers' parents' and communities' views as well in order to check the gap between rhetoric and reality. Such work could nuance the contrast between the West and other places drawn by participants and adopted by the team... [This] is an insightful, thorough and rich new resource on young people's religious and non-religious identites. The concluding call to listne to young people's own views on what will work in terms of Religious Education, cohesion and integration is a powerful one." - Rebecca Catto, Coventry University, UK, Sociology Journal "YOR provides an excellent resource on a generation in transition amid a cultural context that at once provides a secularizing tendency to religiosity and an emergence of religious diversity through globalization and immigration. In this context of change, religion presents necessary community cohesion and divisive conflict." Patricia Snell Herzog, University of Arkansas, USA

• 1. Background and context. 2. The Youth On Religion Study. 3. Constructions of religion. 4. Religious journeys. 5. Religious identity and expression. 6. Religion and Everyday Life. 7. The family and its influence. 8. Friends and schools. 9. Religion and the Community. 10. The overall picture

Nicola Madge is Professor of Child Psychology in the Centre for Child and Youth Research at Brunel University, London. She is the author of a wide range of publications on children and young people’s issues that include religion, ethnicity, disability, disadvantage and self-harm. She is the Principal Investigator for the Youth On Religion study on which this book is based.Peter J. Hemming is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches sociology of education and childhood studies. Peter’s research interests include children and young people, schools, power and identity, faith-based education, citizenship studies and sociology of religion. He is also a former primary school teacher.Kevin Stenson is Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and London Metropolitan University. His research interests include crime, policing, community safety, ethnicity, culture and religion.

'Madge (Child Psychology, Brunel Univ., UK) and her coauthors offer an actor-centric approach in this welcome addition to a timely and important topic... The book's language is theoretical, but the volume will be of interest to students specializing in the sociology of religion or sociology of youth. Summing Up: Recommended.' - Y. Nesen-Cassino, Montclair State University, in CHOICE, November 2014.'This unique book is the result of the Youth on Religion project – a major research effort in Britain concerning the prevalence of both faith and non-faith among young British people. Youth on Religion is the only holistic examination of the entire range of beliefs (including non-belief) among contemporary British youth. The scholarship in this definitive study is outstanding, and the book is sure to have wide appeal.' - Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA'Youth on Religion presents findings from a large-scale, mixed methods project funded in the Youth phase of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme investigating young people's religious identities... The data are framed by classic sociological theorizing... The authors highlight the need for further research seeking teachers' parents' and communities' views as well in order to check the gap between rhetoric and reality. Such work could nuance the contrast between the West and other places drawn by participants and adopted by the team... [This] is an insightful, thorough and rich new resource on young people's religious and non-religious identites. The concluding call to listne to young people's own views on what will work in terms of Religious Education, cohesion and integration is a powerful one." - Rebecca Catto, Coventry University, UK, Sociology Journal "YOR provides an excellent resource on a generation in transition amid a cultural context that at once provides a secularizing tendency to religiosity and an emergence of religious diversity through globalization and immigration. In this context of change, religion presents necessary community cohesion and divisive conflict." Patricia Snell Herzog, University of Arkansas, USA

• 1. Background and context. 2. The Youth On Religion Study. 3. Constructions of religion. 4. Religious journeys. 5. Religious identity and expression. 6. Religion and Everyday Life. 7. The family and its influence. 8. Friends and schools. 9. Religion and the Community. 10. The overall picture

Nicola Madge is Professor of Child Psychology in the Centre for Child and Youth Research at Brunel University, London. She is the author of a wide range of publications on children and young people’s issues that include religion, ethnicity, disability, disadvantage and self-harm. She is the Principal Investigator for the Youth On Religion study on which this book is based.Peter J. Hemming is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, where he teaches sociology of education and childhood studies. Peter’s research interests include children and young people, schools, power and identity, faith-based education, citizenship studies and sociology of religion. He is also a former primary school teacher.Kevin Stenson is Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and London Metropolitan University. His research interests include crime, policing, community safety, ethnicity, culture and religion.

'Madge (Child Psychology, Brunel Univ., UK) and her coauthors offer an actor-centric approach in this welcome addition to a timely and important topic... The book's language is theoretical, but the volume will be of interest to students specializing in the sociology of religion or sociology of youth. Summing Up: Recommended.' - Y. Nesen-Cassino, Montclair State University, in CHOICE, November 2014.'This unique book is the result of the Youth on Religion project – a major research effort in Britain concerning the prevalence of both faith and non-faith among young British people. Youth on Religion is the only holistic examination of the entire range of beliefs (including non-belief) among contemporary British youth. The scholarship in this definitive study is outstanding, and the book is sure to have wide appeal.' - Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA'Youth on Religion presents findings from a large-scale, mixed methods project funded in the Youth phase of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme investigating young people's religious identities... The data are framed by classic sociological theorizing... The authors highlight the need for further research seeking teachers' parents' and communities' views as well in order to check the gap between rhetoric and reality. Such work could nuance the contrast between the West and other places drawn by participants and adopted by the team... [This] is an insightful, thorough and rich new resource on young people's religious and non-religious identites. The concluding call to listne to young people's own views on what will work in terms of Religious Education, cohesion and integration is a powerful one." - Rebecca Catto, Coventry University, UK, Sociology Journal "YOR provides an excellent resource on a generation in transition amid a cultural context that at once provides a secularizing tendency to religiosity and an emergence of religious diversity through globalization and immigration. In this context of change, religion presents necessary community cohesion and divisive conflict." Patricia Snell Herzog, University of Arkansas, USA

• 1. Background and context. 2. The Youth On Religion Study. 3. Constructions of religion. 4. Religious journeys. 5. Religious identity and expression. 6. Religion and Everyday Life. 7. The family and its influence. 8. Friends and schools. 9. Religion and the Community. 10. The overall picture