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This chapter focuses on changes in contemporary religion and in particular in relation to the globalization process. Globally, one aspect of religious change is that fundamentalist religious movements are thriving, aiming at reviving tradition, and making religion influential again in contemporary society. The chapter explores the more vague religious expressions of Western culture, related to New Age and the spirituality discourse, as responses to globalization in the universalistic mode. It discusses the concepts of New Age and spirituality, and argues that essentializing a New Age category no longer makes sense in a globalized society. The chapter then focuses on the dichotomy of institutionalized religion on one hand, and uninstitutionalized, or popular religion, on the other hand. Finally, it raises some critical questions to point some significant similarities between, on the one hand, the characteristics of contemporary religious change and, on the other, neoliberal politics and culture.

1. Re-framing the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality in everyday life / Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Peter Nynäs -- 2. The resistance from an alterspace : Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the dominant sexual and gender norms / Vanja Hamzi -- 3. Spirituality, activism, and the "postsecular" in the sisters of perpetual indulgence / Melissa M. Wilcox -- 4. Hindu, Muslim and Sikh young adults : gendered practices in the negotiation of sexuality and relationship / Sarah-Jane Page and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip -- 5. Coping with religious and cultural homophobia : emotion and narratives of identity threat among British Muslim gay men / Rusi Jaspal -- 6. Sexualities in the migration context : religious influences on views on abortion and homosexuality / Bernadetta Siara -- 7. Queering conversion : exploring new theoretical pathways to understand religious conversion in a Western context / Wim Peumans and Christiane Stallaert -- 8. Body and sexuality constructions among youth of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community / Sara Zalcberg and Sima Zalcberg -- 9. When God is not so good : corporate religion contra new social movements / Kenneth Houston.

"Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality within the context of everyday life, this volume examines contested identities, experiences, bodies and desires on the individual and collective levels. With rich case studies from the UK, USA, Europe, and Asia, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life sheds light on the manner in which individuals appropriate, negotiate, transgress, invert and challenge the norms and models of various religions in relation to gender and sexuality, and vice versa. Drawing on fascinating research from around the world, this book charts central features of the complexities involved in everyday life, examining the messiness, limits, transformations and possibilities that occur when subjectivities, religious and cultural traditions, and politics meet within the local as well as transnational contexts. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and cultural studies examining questions of religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality, and individual and collective identities in contemporary society"--Provided by publisher.

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.