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The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults
How can we comprehend contemporary forms of religion? What is an
adequate methodological approach? Religion as an object of study has become
increasingly evasive and there is an urgent need to address the limitations emerging
from previous conceptual bias and limited empirical perspectives. This chapter
presents the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global
Perspective (YARG), its aims, questions, leading ideas and perspectives. In particular, we shed light on the mixed-method approach that was developed in order to
meet the current challenges and demands. At the core of this is the Faith Q-Sort
(FQS), a novel method for assessing religiosity developed by David Wulff (J Sci
Study Relig 58:643–665, 2019). The chapter describes the strength of FQS for comparisons across cultures and its potential to expose new and emerging worldview
subjectivities and defning elements in these. Finally, we shed light on how we
applied the mixed method approach in studies of relevant themes
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