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Younger People and Religion

      By Josh + Charlotte
Summary
• Young people are less religious overall, this
  may be due to the fact that they are
  expressing their religion in new private ways
  that are difficult to record through survey.
Reasons
• Declining attraction of religion
• Expanding spiritual marketplace
• Privatisation of belief (believing without
  belonging)
• Secular spirituality
• Declining religious education
• Pragmatic reasons
• The generational effect
Declining attraction of religion
• Mainstream religions are unattractive to young people
• Services are boring, repetitive, full of old people, out of
  touch with younger people’s needs and they are old-
  fashioned.
• Religious rules surrounding controversial issues such as
  abortion and gay rights seem bizarre to many young
  people.
• George Carey “Church of England is like an old lady
  muttering to herself in the corner, ignored most of the
  time”, so it is unsurprising that Christianity is seen as
  uncool.
Expanding spiritual marketplace
• Lynch – young people may be turning away
  from religion due to an expanding
  marketplace.
• This has opened up a wide range of spiritual
  ideas and practices, which meet the needs of
  young people better than mainstream
  religions.
Privatisation of belief
• Young people tend to keep their religious
  beliefs as a private matter.
• Even if they hold some spiritual beliefs, they
  may not feel part of a specific religion.
• They may prefer to not make public displays of
  their religion or admit to being religious in
  surveys.
• Dave – believing without belonging.
Secular spirituality and the sacred
• Lynch – young people may not have lost all
  religiosity, but simply finding new forms, many
  of which are associated more with the secular
  and non-religious world than with religion as it
  is presently understood by most people.
Declining religious education
• Bruce – church of England is increasingly
  unable to recruit young people through
  socialization or thinking of church Sunday
  schools/religious education.
• Sunday schools are in a state of decline.
• Century ago – half of all children attended
  Sunday school
• 2000- this has reduced to just one in every 25
  children and is still in decline.
Pragmatic reasons
• Leisure has become a bigger part of life, and
  shops pubs and clubs are all open for long
  hours, including Sunday.
• Young people have more demands of their
  time and may simply have something more
  interesting to do, as religion is seen as uncool.
• It also may be due to peer pressure which
  exert social pressure to not be religious.
The generational effect
• Each generation is becoming more secular than
  the previous.
• Young people are being born into a time which is
  not so religious, and therefore not being
  socialized into religions unlike their elders.
• Voas and crockett – each generation is half as
  religious as their parents. This is called the
  “period effect”, where people born into a
  particular time are more likely to be religious
  than others.

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  • 1. Younger People and Religion By Josh + Charlotte
  • 2. Summary • Young people are less religious overall, this may be due to the fact that they are expressing their religion in new private ways that are difficult to record through survey.
  • 3. Reasons • Declining attraction of religion • Expanding spiritual marketplace • Privatisation of belief (believing without belonging) • Secular spirituality • Declining religious education • Pragmatic reasons • The generational effect
  • 4. Declining attraction of religion • Mainstream religions are unattractive to young people • Services are boring, repetitive, full of old people, out of touch with younger people’s needs and they are old- fashioned. • Religious rules surrounding controversial issues such as abortion and gay rights seem bizarre to many young people. • George Carey “Church of England is like an old lady muttering to herself in the corner, ignored most of the time”, so it is unsurprising that Christianity is seen as uncool.
  • 5. Expanding spiritual marketplace • Lynch – young people may be turning away from religion due to an expanding marketplace. • This has opened up a wide range of spiritual ideas and practices, which meet the needs of young people better than mainstream religions.
  • 6. Privatisation of belief • Young people tend to keep their religious beliefs as a private matter. • Even if they hold some spiritual beliefs, they may not feel part of a specific religion. • They may prefer to not make public displays of their religion or admit to being religious in surveys. • Dave – believing without belonging.
  • 7. Secular spirituality and the sacred • Lynch – young people may not have lost all religiosity, but simply finding new forms, many of which are associated more with the secular and non-religious world than with religion as it is presently understood by most people.
  • 8. Declining religious education • Bruce – church of England is increasingly unable to recruit young people through socialization or thinking of church Sunday schools/religious education. • Sunday schools are in a state of decline. • Century ago – half of all children attended Sunday school • 2000- this has reduced to just one in every 25 children and is still in decline.
  • 9. Pragmatic reasons • Leisure has become a bigger part of life, and shops pubs and clubs are all open for long hours, including Sunday. • Young people have more demands of their time and may simply have something more interesting to do, as religion is seen as uncool. • It also may be due to peer pressure which exert social pressure to not be religious.
  • 10. The generational effect • Each generation is becoming more secular than the previous. • Young people are being born into a time which is not so religious, and therefore not being socialized into religions unlike their elders. • Voas and crockett – each generation is half as religious as their parents. This is called the “period effect”, where people born into a particular time are more likely to be religious than others.