Searching for Religious Identity between national and religious heritage and Global Expansion

Abstract

This chapter investigates how the collective associations are reflected in the adolescent search for identity. The research questions presented here focus on the aspect of collective identity. The analyses will be grouped into three sections: first, analyses will look at the entire sample; then young people from different religious groups will be compared with one another; finally, the collective identity of young people with an immigrant background will be focused on specifically. Finally, the chapter presents the result that reveals the different religious identity profiles in the whole sample and in subgroups of the young people. Keywords:national heritage; religious heritage; religious identity