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"Post-Materialist Religion discusses the transformations of the individual's worldview in contemporary modern societies, and the role general societal value change plays in these. In doing so, Mika Lassander brings into conversation sociological theories of secularisation and social-psychological theories of interpersonal relations, the development of morality, and the nature of basic human values. The long-term decline of traditional religiosity in Europe and the emerging ethos that can be described as post-secular have brought religion and values back into popular discussion. One important theme in these discussions is about the links between religion and values, with the most common assumption being that religions are the source of individuals' values. This book argues for the opposite view, suggesting that religions, or people's worldviews in general, reflect the individual's priorities. Mika Lassander argues that the transformation of the individual's worldview is a direct consequence of the social and economical changes in European societies since the Second World War. He suggests that the decline of traditional religiosity is not an indication of linear secularisation or of forgetting traditions, but an indication of the loss of relevance of some aspects of the traditional institutional religions. Furthermore, he argues that this is not an indication of the loss of ethical value base, but, rather, a change in the value base and consequently the transformation of the legitimating framework of this value base."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Secularism --- Neopaganism --- Nature --- Religious aspects --- Europe --- Religion --- the decline and change of religion --- moral intuition and universals in human values --- vernacular religion --- post-materialist religion --- contemporary Paganism --- pragmatism and the study of religions --- religious identity and values --- the European Social Survey --- modes of interpersonal relations --- individualism --- collectivism --- tolerance --- personal growth --- religious change --- security --- tradition --- conformity --- bigotry --- self-expression --- selfish egoism --- universalistic individualism --- post-materialist values --- Religious aspects.

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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. ; Presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the values and worldviews of a generation that is soon going to rise to power and influence Features a unique mixed-methods approach to the study of religions, worldviews, and values Details a collaborative effort by an international team of scholars from different cultural and academic backgrounds to study a complex and shifting topic

Psychology --- Religion & beliefs --- Religious issues & debates --- young adults and religion --- Q-methodology --- transnational study of religion and values --- cross-cultural comparison of religiosity --- worldviews and higher education --- Schwartz value survey --- mixed-methods methodology --- secular and non-religious --- Young Adults as a Social Category --- Relational Analysis of Subjective Worldviews --- Case of ‘Idiosyncratic’ and ‘Divided’ Worldviews --- Global Consensus of the Y-Generation --- Global Variation of Non-Religious Worldviews --- Fundamentalist and Liquid Worldviews --- Self-Transcendence vs. Self-Enhancement of Human Values --- Religiosity and Volunteering in YARG Case Studies --- Subjective Life-World Orientations in the East and West --- Discrimination and Subjective Wellbeing Among Students --- Subjectivities and Value Profiles Among Muslim Students