Identities Under Construction – Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in …

Identities Under ConstructionReligion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada\nAuthor(s): Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228001065, 978-0228001065\nSynopsis\nGrowing numbers of young adults are either nonreligious or \""spiritual but not religious,\"" but this does not signal a lack of interest in religion and meaning-making. Though the lexicon describing sexuality and gender is quickly evolving, young people do not yet have satisfactory language to describe their fluid religious and spiritual identities.\n\nIn Identities Under Construction Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley undertake a focused study of youth sexual, religious, and gender identity construction. Drawing from survey responses and interviews with nearly five hundred participants, they reveal that youth today consider their identities fluid and open to change. Young people do not li.