HL La religione del futuro - ch 5

Chapter 5 Irreligious: Losing My Religion (and Spirituality) - iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Jean M. Twenge

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Their skateboard park is the former Church of St. Joseph in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Like many other churches across Europe, the Church of St. Joseph closed as more Europeans disassociated from religion.
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For decades, the United States has been a much more religious country than most of Europe.
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Then came the Millennials. As studies by the Pew Research Center showed in the mid-2010s, one in three Millennials (then 20 to 34 years old) claimed no religious affiliation, much higher than the one in ten Americans over age 70 who did not affiliate. However, younger people have always been less religious and older people
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Part of the Flock: Public Religious Participation
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Beginning in the 1990s and accelerating in the 2000s, fewer and fewer young people affiliated with a religion. The shift was largest for young adults,
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iGen’ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.
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two forces are working simultaneously to pull iGen’ers away from religion: more iGen’ers are being raised in nonreligious households, and more iGen teens have decided not to belong to a religion anymore.
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Attendance at services declined slowly until around 1997 and then began to plummet.
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“They tend to come back to the Church because they want their children to have some sort of religious education,”
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iGen’ers and the Millennials are less religious than Boomers and GenX’ers were at the same age.
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Faithful but Different
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Losing My Religion: Private Religious Beliefs
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For twenty years, headlines and academic articles declared that yes, fewer Americans affiliated with a religion, but just as many were praying and just as many believed in God.
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Then it fell off a cliff. By 2016, one out of three 18- to 24-year-olds said they did not believe in God. Prayer followed a similar steep, downward trajectory.
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it is no longer true that Americans are just as religious privately. More and more Americans, especially Millennials and iGen’ers, are less religious both publicly and privately. This is not due to shifts in ethnic or racial composition in the population: the trends are the same,
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spends all of his free time playing video games.
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he thinks religion is for, he says, “It’s great for supporting people, like, if they’re in a bad time.
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“I’ve stopped praying just to thank God; I only pray when I need something or when someone else needs something,”
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But even belief in an afterlife started to fade after 2006.
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iGen is, with near certainty, the least religious generation in US history.
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they never attend religious services, don’t pray, and don’t believe in God.
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Religion vs. the Twenty-First Century
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a recent study found that 80% of unmarried young adult evangelical Christians have had sex.)
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the future of Christianity:
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they will usher in a new, more tolerant era of Christian belief that steps away from what people should not do to focus on what they should do.
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“Spiritual but Not Religious” Has Become “Not Spiritual and Not Religious”
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Robert Fuller penned a book called Spiritual but Not Religious
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That might have been true at one time, but no longer. iGen’ers are actually less spiritual as well as being less religious.
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it’s not age, because Boomers and GenX’ers were perfectly happy to be religious when they were young; iGen is less religious even in beliefs that don’t require religious institutions;
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iGen’ers are less religious and less spiritual, publicly and privately, and strikingly different from previous generations when they were young.
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in recent years teens from higher-SES families were more likely to go to religious services (see Figure 5.9
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Too Many Rules: Why Religion Has Declined
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Why are young Americans now less religious?
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more individualistic times were less religious times.
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following certain rules and joining groups, two other factors that don’t fit particularly well with an individualistic mind-set.
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Even religious teens often adhere to a more individualistic version of faith. When Christian Smith interviewed young people for his book Soul Searching, he found that many adhered to a belief system he labeled “moralistic therapeutic deism,”
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In You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church . . . and Rethinking Faith, his book about young former Christians, David Kinnaman reports that many young people feel a disconnect between their church and what they experience outside of it, including science, pop culture, and sexuality.
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many Millennials and iGen’ers distrust religion because they believe it promotes antigay attitudes. More young people now associate religion with rigidity and intolerance—
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Seventy-nine percent of the nonreligious believed that Christianity was antigay.
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How can you love everyone, except gays, transgenders, and people who don’t believe in our God?
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David Kinnaman’s book unChristian
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“We have become famous for what we oppose, rather than who we are for.”
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religious organizations should focus on active discussions with iGen’ers that address the “big questions” they have about life,
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Europe with Bigger Cars: The Future Religious Landscape
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(56%) believe that the decline in religion is a bad thing, while only 12% believe it’s a good thing.
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Evangelical churches have not lost as many members over the last few decades as other Christian denominations have. That might be because they’ve recognized that iGen’ers and Millennials want religion to complete them—to strengthen their relationships and give them a sense of purpose.
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Religion will survive, but it will be a flexible, open, equal religion that gives people a sense of belonging and meaning
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It is unclear where iGen’ers will find community interaction to replace religion. Perhaps they won’t find it at all, content to rely on their social media network,
E LA COMUNITÁ?