Choice Review

Based on interviews of a sample of university students in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, this is an in-depth analysis of beliefs and practices of Canadian youth of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist religious backgrounds, whose parents immigrated in recent decades. The editors and contributors focus on religion's role in the context of global migration, and how these youth relate to their religion, family, culture, and social networks. They show how the voices of the second generation of Canadians reflect how they live their religion and see religion in the Canadian and global contexts. These studies reveal important broad patterns of variation based on religious background and gender. Women growing up in Canada were religiously more involved than men. Both men and women reconstructed their religion influenced not only by their religious socialization as children, but also by the city's multicultural environment, their education, the Internet, social networks, and so forth. This comparative analysis of Canadian data, with research in the US and western Europe, demonstrates a continuity of construction and reconstruction of religions across localities and nations. A fine empirical study of religious orientations of minority youth in major Canadian cities, this volume makes an outstanding contribution to religious and sociology of youth studies. --Dan A. Chekki, University of Winnipeg