The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults : Contemporary (Non)Religiosity And Spirituality Through The Lens Of An International Mixed Method Study

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.

Part I: Defining the Motive, Methods, and Material. Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Moving Beyond Dysfunctional Categories and Quasi-Objects. Towards a New Methodology.- Chapter 3. Young Adults as a Social Category. A Critical Assessment.- Part II: The Universals and Variance in Subjective Worldviews - Developing a Ground-Up Model. Chapter 4. A Relational Analysis of Subjective Worldviews - Different Ways of Looking at The Data.- Chapter 5. Religious Outliers and Ultra-Subjective Outlooks. The Case of ''Idiosyncratic'' and ''Divided'' Worldviews.- Chapter 6. "Who Relates to The Divine as Feminine?" - The Global Consensus of the Y-Generation.- Chapter 7. The Global Variation of Non-Religious Worldviews.- Chapter 8. Gendered Views - Male and Female Worldview Prototypes in the YARG Data.- Chapter 9. "Who Is Looking for The True Doctrine?" - Certainty Versus Uncertainty and the Fundamentalist and the Liquid Worldviews.- Part III: Thematic Chapters. Chapter 10. The Self-Transcendence vs. Self-Enhancement Dimension of Human Values. Religiosity and Volunteering in YARG Case Studies.- Chapter 11. The Open and the Closed Mind, or, the Rhetoric of Choice and Equality vs. Conservation and Religious Tradition.- Chapter 12. Contexts of Plurality and Uniformity - A Comparative Study of Subjective Life-World Orientations in India, China, Finland, and the USA.- Chapter 13. Social Capital and Lack Thereof - Discrimination and Subjective Wellbeing Among University Students.- Chapter 14. The Reflections and Effects of Discrimination in The Religious Subjectivities and Value Profiles Among Muslim Students in Israel and Turkey - A Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 15. The God and Gods of the ''Post-Socialist'' Generation. ''Religious Resurgence'' vs. Personal Life Worlds in Russia and Poland.- Part IV: Conclusions. Chapter 16. A Transnational View of the Life-Worlds of Young Adults.- Chapter 17. On Method, Concepts, and Results in Reference to Broader Academic Perspectives.