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Sandra Cullen
2019 March
Religion and Education: The voices of young people in Ireland
Turn up the volume: Hearing what the voices of young people are saying to religious education
Veritas
Dublin
In Press
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The research presented in this book turns up the volume on the voices of young people. Behind every statistic presented in the data is an individual whose voice, views and beliefs have been influenced by particular contexts. The relationship between individuals and their context can be interrogated using Boeve’s threefold description of sociocultural developments in Europe that have an impact on religion and consequently on religious education: detraditionalisation, the individualisation of identity formation, and pluralisation. Turning up the volume on the voices of young people reveals that there are significant features to their engagement with religion. It suggests that religious education with young people can only be undertaken with them as conversation partners in the imagining of appropriate forms of religious education for contemporary contexts.
Gareth Byrne and Leslie Francis
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