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"It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of digital media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG), an international panel of contributors shed new light on the impact of digital media and its associated technologies on young people's religiosities, worldviews, and values. Case studies from China, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Peru, Poland, and Turkey are used to demonstrate how these developments are progressing, not just in the West, but across the world. This book is unique in that it presents a truly macroscopic perspective on trends in religion amongst young adults. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars working in religious studies, digital media, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, theology and youth studies"--

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.