Book Launch

Religion and Education: The Voices of Young People in Ireland is a wide-ranging collection from Veritas Publications exploring the attitudes of teenagers on the island of Ireland to religion and diversity.

Edited by Dr Gareth Byrne, Director of the Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education, Dublin City University, and Prof Leslie J. Francis, Warwick Religions and Education Research Centre, University of Warwick, in this volume the authors provide a comparative analysis of what young people in Ireland have to say about religion over a period of fifty years.

The most recent material comes from the Religious Diversity and Young People survey administered among 3,000 13 to 15-year-old students between 2013 and 2015. The authors, leading academics in the field, offer fascinating insights, across twelve chapters, into the religiosity and spirituality of young people in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, and into their engagement with religious education.

Young people, parents, schools and faith communities will find this an invaluable resource in reflecting on how the interaction between religion and education can contribute to the fullest development of young people in Ireland today, both spiritually and morally.

Religion and Education: The Voices of Young People in Ireland edited by Dr Gareth Byrne and Professor Leslie J. Francis (Dublin: Veritas, 2019)

Book Launch: Monday 9th December at 6pm, Room B103, DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

Professor Francis will speak on the theme: ‘Listening to young people: The benefits of empirical research on religion and education’.