How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious, spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious, spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities?Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world.This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.

1. The Future Makers: Teens in the Age of Diversity2. Doing Away with our Sunday Best: Teenagers and the Remaking of Religion in Australia3. Mind, Body, Spirit: Teenagers and Spirituality4. A Personal Point of View: Discovering Teenage Worldviews5. 'A Higher Order Out There': Seekers and the Spiritual but not Religious6. Immanent Gods: This Worldly and Indifferent Teens7. Awash but not Adrift in a Sea of Diversity: Teen Attitudes to Religious Diversity8. Taking it to School: Religious Literacy, Religious Instruction and General Religious Education9. Harry Potter, Homophobia and Human Rights: Teens talk about Sexuality Education, Religious Exemptions and Gay Rights10. Conclusion