1. Peter Beyer is professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa.
2. Rubina Ramji is associate professor of religious studies at Cape Breton University.
摘要
A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing Up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families. Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices. The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing Up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)
目次
Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi
1 Growing Up Canadian: Systemic and Lived Religion 3 Peter Beyer 2 Data and Methods: University Settings in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal 21 John H. Simpson and Peter Beyer 3 Young Adults and Religion in Canada: A Statistical Overview 35 Peter Beyer and Wendy K. Martin 4 Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism: Differential Reconstruction of Religions 53 Peter Beyer 5 From Atheism to Open Religiosity: Muslim Men 74 Peter Beyer 6 A Variable but Convergent Islam: Muslim Women 112 Rubina Ramji 7 Perpetuating Religion and Culture: Hindu Women 145 Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann 8 A Dominance of Marginal Relations: Hindu Men 167 Shandip Saha and Peter Beyer 9 Maybe, in the Future: Buddhist Men 192 Peter Beyer 10 Fluid Boundaries of a Tolerant Religion: Buddhist Women 213 Marie-Paule Martel-Reny and Peter Beyer 11 The Difference that Gender Makes 235 Lori Beaman, Nancy Nason-Clark, and Rubina Ramji 12 Growing Up in Toronto: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists 262 Kathryn Carrière 13 Growing Up in Canada, the United States, and Western Europe 290 Peter Beyer
Appendix 307 Notes 317 References 325 Contributors 337 Index 341
