What do teenagers today really think about their parents, their friends, about growing up, job prospects, relationships, and sex, nuclear war, music, happiness... and hopes for the future? To find out, Reginald Bibby and Donald Posterski surveyed over 3,000 young people across Canada. Their surprising findings are reprinted here - and should be must reading for any Canadian over the age of 15.

The Emerging Generation: An Inside Look at Canada's Teenagers

Politics & Social Sciences

Reginald W. Bibby

Donald C. Posterski

Social Sciences

Irwin Publishing

The Emerging Generation

Restless Gods reveals the surprising news about religion and spirituality in Canada: Secularization is a myth € There are signs of new life in the Churches € Spirituality and a sense of "something else" are everywhere € Growing numbers of teenagers are interested in religion € What people say they want from the churches € Groups that will survive and thrive - and are about to be born € Convergence prospects for restless people and restless churches. Restless Gods will explode Canadians' misconceptions and myths about religion, spirituality, and themselves.

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

Religion & Spirituality

Stoddart Pub.

This book interprets the turbulent Canadian times. It tells the story of a Canada that has pursued the goal of a just society, and has succeeded in providing individuals, groups and institutions with unprecedented freedom. 
But emancipation has not let to integration. We have been left with isolated tiles rather than a mosaic art-piece. Canada has become a fragmented society where personal and group rights are being valued over the collective good, where sheer expression of viewpoints is being valued over the thoughtful evaluation of what is accurate and best.
We are a society badly in need of better balance between the individual and the group, between choice and discernment. The good news is that it is still possible.

Mosaic Madness: Pluralism Without a Cause

What's going on with teens today? What are their experiences with violence, sex, and drugs? What do they value, enjoy, and worry about? How do they feel about family life, spirituality, cyberspace, and Canada? How do they compare with teens of the past, and with their parents and grandparents today? And how are they going to turn out? Reginald Bibby addresses these important questions by drawing on his unparalleled nationwide surveys of young people and adults spanning the years 1975 through 2000. Today's teenagers, Gen Xers, Boomers, and Boomers' parents all speak out in this colourful landmark look at teens today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

Canada's Teens: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow

Stoddart

This is a comprehensive examination of the impact of the Baby Boomers and their themes of freedom, diversity, and choice, along with their information and technology, on our latest emerging generation. It is based on his major new survey of over 5,000 Canadian teenagers, including a special sample of Aboriginals, and interpreted through the eyes of his unparalleled national surveys of teens and adults spanning the mid-1970s through now. It offers a report on the good, the bad, and the unfinished - the politically pleasing and politically incorrect. It presents a portrait of everything worth knowing about teenagers - their values, their loves and likes, what they are thinking and doing sexually, their self-images, anxieties and fears, what they are doing with all that technology, their awareness of what is happening in the world, their family experiences, beliefs and spirituality, and their hopes and expectations as they look to the future. It is written in Bibby's signature style - the solid, stimulating researcher and lively, engaging author.

Emerging Millennials: How Canada's Newest Generation is Responding to Change & Choice

Wood Lake Books Inc

This is the fourth in Reginald Bibby's classic examinations of religion in Canada, following the best-selling and influential Fragmented Gods (1987), Unknown Gods (1993), and Restless Gods (2002). In this important update, Bibby pulls together his extensive trend data in describing the major religious shifts that have been taking place in Canada. He also draws heavily on newly available international survey data to look at Canada in global perspective. Bibby takes readers back to a time when religion was dominant, and shows how major cultural and demographic changes combined to bring about the participation crash of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. He maintains that the current religious situation is neither characterized by secularization nor revitalization but by polarization. A sizable and durable core of people continue to value religion while, simultaneously, a growing number are abandoning it. Polarization, he says, raises the important question of the extent to which the two extremes can co-exist. It also raises some critically important, "so what?" questions concerning the impact on life and death. Specifically, to the extent that Canadians reject religion versus embrace it, what are the implications for personal well-being, spirituality, social well-being, and how they respond to death? Drawing on key thinkers and the extensive data at hand, Bibby maintains that for most people, the abandonment of religion will be short-lived. "Some people will choose to go it alone," he acknowledges. And without question, large numbers will say goodbye to any number of forms of organized religion. But, he says, the future looks bright in Canada for Roman Catholics, Conservative Protestants, and Muslims. What's more, some new, important entries can be expected to appear. Conversely, the United and Anglican churches may soon be on life support. Still, in the midst of such shuffling, he concludes, "Few of us will say goodbye to the gods."

Beyond the Gods & Back: Religion's Demise and Rise and Why It Matters

Project Canada Books

Reference

Novalis Press (CN)

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The Emerging Generation: An Inside Look at Canada's Teenagers

The Emerging Generation

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

Mosaic Madness: Pluralism Without a Cause

Canada's Teens: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow

Emerging Millennials: How Canada's Newest Generation is Responding to Change & Choice

Beyond the Gods & Back: Religion's Demise and Rise and Why It Matters

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada