Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity

年轻人对宗教多样性的态度

• 批准号: AH/G014035/1
• 负责人: Robert Jackson
• 金额: $ 55.3万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG014035%2F1
• 关键词: Young; People; Attitudes; Religious; Diversity

The increasing religious diversity throughout the United Kingdom provides both a major challenge and an opportunity for the future of society. The media commenting on recent local and international events and trends have given religious difference and divisions a high public profile. There is a growing recognition at government level that religion cannot be relegated to the private sphere and that teaching school students about religious diversity in religious education and citizenship lessons can contribute to community cohesion. To date little research has been done on students' own attitudes towards religious diversity or the factors influencing their formation. These attitudes and influences are the subject of this research project to be carried out by members of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU).The research will investigate the attitudes of 13 to 16 year old students across the United Kingdom. Young people from a variety of socio-economic, cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds will take part in the study in order for a variety of views to be heard and the influence of a number of contextual factors to be considered. The WRERU team will use mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) to explore the young people's experiences of and perspectives on religious diversity. The first phase of the project will take place in fifteen secondary schools. These will be selected to cover a variety of contexts of diversity and relative homogeneity across the four nations and London (three schools in each). London is included as a special case because of its sheer size and distinctive patterns of diversity. Qualitative researchers from WRERU will conduct three group interviews in each school to investigate the key themes and issues the students identify with religious diversity and the range and variety of positions they adopt in response. This phase will provide an exploratory basis and a detailed context for the quantitative phase. It will allow hypotheses to emerge that will then be tested in the next phase by a UK wide survey. The quantitative survey will draw a representative sample of 10,000 pupils from state maintained, independent and faith-based schools. A sample of this size will ensure reliable visibility for minorities. Established psychometric instruments and specially originated scales will be employed and creative use made of various statistical techniques to facilitate the development and testing of path models to investigate the influence on student attitudes of social and contextual factors (including school, family, media and local neighbourhood), of their own religious affiliation, beliefs and practices and views of transcendence, of personality traits and other individual-level variables. Colleagues with qualitative and quantitative research experience will work closely together in the design of the project, analysis of the data and write up of the findings to enable a cross-fertilisation of ideas and expertise. The triangulation of methods will enable a depth of analysis and a degree of generalisability that would not have been possible on the basis of one methodological approach alone.A major outcome of the project will be enhanced research capacity and excellence within quantitative and qualitative approaches to empirical research in religion among young people. This research will be of major interest to government departments concerned with the role of religion in shaping society; to inter-governmental organisations such as the Council of Europe, to churches and faith communities concerned both with internal development and with assessing their impact on society; to head teachers and governors, to RE and Citizenship teachers and professional organisations concerned with curriculum development related to the needs and perspectives of young people.

英国各地日益增长的宗教多样性为社会的未来既带来了重大挑战，也带来了机遇。媒体对最近的本地和国际事件和趋势的评论使宗教差异和分歧得到了高度的公众关注。政府层面越来越多地认识到，宗教不能被归入私人领域，在宗教教育和公民课程中向学生传授宗教多样性可以有助于社区凝聚力。迄今为止，关于学生自己对宗教多样性的态度或影响其形成的因素的研究还很少。这些态度和影响是该研究项目的主题，该项目由华威宗教与教育研究小组 (WRERU) 成员开展。该研究将调查英国各地 13 至 16 岁学生的态度。来自不同社会经济、文化、种族和宗教背景的年轻人将参与这项研究，以便听取各种观点并考虑一些背景因素的影响。 WRERU团队将使用混合方法（定性和定量）来探索年轻人对宗教多样性的经历和观点。该项目的第一阶段将在十五所中学进行。这些将被选择以涵盖四个国家和伦敦（每个国家三所学校）的多样性和相对同质性的各种背景。伦敦因其庞大的规模和独特的多样性模式而被视为一个特例。 WRERU 的定性研究人员将在每所学校进行三轮小组访谈，以调查学生认为宗教多样性的关键主题和问题以及他们对此采取的立场的范围和多样性。此阶段将为定量阶段提供探索性基础和详细背景。它将允许出现假设，然后在下一阶段通过英国范围内的调查进行测试。这项定量调查将从公立、独立和信仰学校中抽取 10,000 名学生作为代表性样本。这种规模的样本将确保少数群体的可靠可见性。将采用既定的心理测量工具和专门制定的量表，并创造性地利用各种统计技术，以促进路径模型的开发和测试，以调查社会和背景因素（包括学校、家庭、媒体和当地社区）、他们自己的宗教信仰、信仰和实践以及超越观、人格特质和其他个人层面变量对学生态度的影响。具有定性和定量研究经验的同事将在项目设计、数据分析和研究结果撰写方面密切合作，以实现思想和专业知识的交叉融合。方法的三角测量将实现仅凭一种方法论不可能实现的深度分析和一定程度的普遍性。该项目的一个主要成果将是提高年轻人宗教实证研究的定量和定性方法的研究能力和卓越性。这项研究将引起关注宗教在塑造社会中的作用的政府部门的重大兴趣；欧洲委员会等政府间组织、关注内部发展和评估其社会影响的教会和信仰团体；校长和州长、RE 和公民教师以及关注与年轻人的需求和观点相关的课程开发的专业组织。

项目成果

Religious Diversity in the UK: Do 13-16-Year-Old Pupils Perceive it as a Site of Multiple Intersections?

英国的宗教多样性：13-16 岁的学生是否将其视为多重交叉点？

• 期刊: Religious Education and Gender, Class, 'Race', Ethnicity and Disability", 27 July-1 August, 2014, York, UK
• 作者: Arweck, E

Young People's Articulation of (Non-)Religious Identities and their Perceptions of (Non-)Belief: What are the Implications for Religious Education?

年轻人对（非）宗教身份的表达及其对（非）信仰的看法：对宗教教育有何影响？

• 期刊: Past, Present and Future in Europe" ECER Conference 2014, Porto, Portugal, 2-5 September 2014
• 作者: Arweck, E

Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity: Socialising Agents and Factors Emerging from Qualitative and Quantitative Data of a Nation-Wide Project in the UK

年轻人对宗教多样性的态度：英国全国范围项目的定性和定量数据中出现的社会化因素和因素

• DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1029890
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Journal of Intercultural Studies
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Arweck E

'I've been christened, but I don't really believe in it': How Young People Articulate their (Non-)Religious Identities and Perceptions of (Non-)Belief

“我被洗礼了，但我并不真正相信它”：年轻人如何表达他们的（非）宗教身份和对（非）信仰的看法

• 期刊: Religion and Crisis
• 作者: Arweck, E

Religious Diversity in the UK: Attitudes and Views of 13-16-Year-Old Students

英国的宗教多样性：13-16 岁学生的态度和观点

• 期刊: Annual meeting of the Religionssektion in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Wittenberg, Germany, 22-24 November 2013
• 作者: Arweck, E