This book closes a gap in knowledge about young people's attitudes to religious diversity, and reports data gathered across the whole of the UK as well as comparative chapters on Canada, USA and continental Europe. Reporting findings from both qualitative and quantitative research which reveal, for example, the importance of the particular social and geographical context within which young people are embedded, the volume addresses young people's attitudes towards the range of 'world religions' as well as non-religious stances and offers an interdisciplinary approach through the different analytical perspectives of the contributors.

Elisabeth Arweck is Principal Research Fellow in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU), Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, and the Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion. Her recent research has focused on young people's attitudes to religious diversity and the religious socialisation and nurture of young people. Recent publications include a number of co-authored articles (with Eleanor Nesbitt) and (co-edited) volumes, such as Religion and Knowledge (with Mathew Guest, Ashgate 2013), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (with Chris Deacy, Ashgate 2009) and Reading Religion in Text and Context (with Peter Collins, Ashgate 2006). She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching New Religious Movements in the West (Routledge 2007) and co-author (with Peter Clarke) of New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press 1997).

Part 1. Setting the Context

1. The 'Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity' Project in the Context of Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) Research

Robert Jackson & Ursula McKenna

2. The Qualitative Strand: Listening in Depth

Elisabeth Arweck & Julia Ipgrave

3. The Quantitative Strand: An Individual Differences Approach

Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Mandy Robbins

4. Sources of Knowledge and Authority: Religious Education for Young Muslims in a Birmingham Comprehensive School

Julia Ipgrave

5. Uniting Two Communities or Creating a Third Community? Research in a Northern Irish Integrated School

Julia Ipgrave

6. Cradling Catholics in Secular Scotland: Research in a Scottish Roman Catholic High School

Julia Ipgrave

7. The Matter of Context: The Case of Two Community Schools in Wales

Elisabeth Arweck

8. Religious Diversity as a Personal and Social Value: Impressions from a Multicultural School in London

Elisabeth Arweck

9. Does RE Work and Contribute to the Common Good in England?

Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Ursula McKenna

10. Testing the 'Worlds apart' Thesis: Catholic and Protestant Schools in Northern Ireland

Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Philip Barnes

11. Growing up Catholic in Scotland: Not One Catholic Community but Three

Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Peter Neil

12. Schools with a Religious Character and Community Cohesion in Wales

Leslie J Francis, Gemma Penny & Tania ap Siôn

13. The Personal and Social Significance of Diverse Religious Affiliation in Multi-faith London

Leslie J Francis & Gemma Penny

14. Young People and Religious Diversity: A Canadian Perspective

Lori G. Beaman, Peter Beyer and Christine L. Cusack

15. A Collage of Contexts: Young People and Religious Diversity in the United States

Mary Elizabeth Moore

16. Young People and Religious Diversity: A European Perspective, with Particular Reference to Germany

Alexander Yendell