Your Story: Exploring the Faith Journeys of Young Australians
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Graham David Stanton
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Rowan Donald Lewis
Abstract
The Your Story research project surveyed Australian young people to explore the experiences and practices they associate with faith, spirituality, and religion. Analysis of data collected from over 400 young people aged between sixteen and twenty years who were connected to a Christian organisation identified eight faith journey narrative types and analysed factors that were either supportive of or contrary to a positive engagement with Christian faith. The study commends attending to adolescent faith as a narrative, recognising how faith is formed in a relational ecosystem, and enabling young people to activate resources by incorporating them within their stories of faith.
Zusammenfassung
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Your Story wurden australische Jugendliche befragt, um die Erfahrungen und Praktiken zu untersuchen, die sie mit Glauben, Spiritualität und Religion verbinden. Die Analyse der Daten von über 400 jungen Menschen im Alter zwischen 16 und 20 Jahren, die einer christlichen Organisation angehören, ergab acht narrative Typen in Bezug auf die eigene Glaubensentwicklung. Es wurden die Faktoren analysiert, die eine positive Auseinandersetzung mit dem christlichen Glauben entweder begünstigen oder behindern. Die Studie spricht sich dafür aus, den Glauben von Jugendlichen als Erzählung zu betrachten, zu erkennen, wie sich der Glaube in einem relationalen Ökosystem herausbildet und jungen Menschen die Möglichkeit zu geben, Ressourcen zu aktivieren, indem sie diese in ihre Glaubensgeschichten einbeziehen.
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