Mounting evidence suggests that modern globalization is reshaping the lives of young people around the globe. Strikingly little is known, though, about how globalization affects young people’s orientations toward religion. In the current study, 40 Thai adolescents—divided across variously globalized settings—took part in individual interviews and completed questionnaires on their religious practices. Mixed methods analyses indicate similarities and differences in framings of religious practices among adolescents residing in rural and urban communities. Rural adolescents reported engaging in a wide range of religious practices, including actions that support Buddhist monks, temples, family, and community, and illustrate adherence to Buddhist teachings. Urban adolescents discussed a restricted range of religious practices, focusing on one action that supports monks and actions that support the development of the self. Rural and urban adolescents alike spoke of social others when discussing their religious practices; framings, however, diverged across cultural lines. Rural adolescents framed religion as a relational experience that necessarily includes family members, friends, and teachers. Urban adolescents, meanwhile, often qualified their relational religious practices by emphasizing distinctions between their own and their parents’ practices, and highlighting feelings of obligation that accompany practicing with family. Distinct framings of the divine self and selves across cultural lines suggest movement from an interdependent to a more independent orientation toward religion as communities become increasingly urbanized, high in technology, and shift toward a commerce-based economy.

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神圣的自我和自我：泰国北部全球化中青少年的宗教实践和宗教取向。

越来越多的证据表明，现代全球化正在重塑全球年轻人的生活。然而，关于全球化如何影响年轻人对宗教的倾向知之甚少。在当前的研究中，40 名来自不同全球化环境的泰国青少年参加了个人访谈并完成了有关其宗教习俗的问卷调查。混合方法分析表明居住在农村和城市社区的青少年在宗教实践框架方面的异同。农村青少年报告说参与了广泛的宗教活动，包括支持佛教僧侣、寺庙、家庭和社区的行动，并表明他们对佛教教义的遵守。城市青少年讨论了有限范围的宗教习俗，专注于一项支持僧侣的行动和支持自我发展的行动。农村和城市青少年在讨论他们的宗教习俗时都谈到社会他人；然而，框架因文化界限而异。农村青少年将宗教视为一种关系体验，其中必然包括家庭成员、朋友和老师。与此同时，城市青少年经常通过强调他们自己和父母的做法之间的区别，并强调与家人一起练习的义务感来限定他们的相关宗教实践。随着社区变得日益城市化、科技含量高、