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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious,
spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences
mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their
geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious,
spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities? Freedoms, Faiths and
Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity
offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world
around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this
book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young
people's lives and how school education covering diversity best
addresses their world. This book argues that school education
focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young
people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's
everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each
other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can
play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance
and positive attitudes to diversity.
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