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This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a
portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church
and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African
Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of
African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the
momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these
factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in
providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty,
wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the
academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian
religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.
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