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Spanish, religion and sect: What do you think the youth of the XXI century? Meet

occasion of the upcoming World Youth Day 2011, news agency Zenit has opened a new series of articles, a fortnightly publication, which the Latin American Network for the Study of Sects (RIES) will analyze the religious beliefs of young people today hoping that this new series may contribute to the understanding of the religious youth, as an aid to pastoral workers and educators.

Below we offer the first article of the series, made by a English priest D. Luis Santamaría.

Last March, the Centre for Sociological Research [under the Ministry of the Presidency of Spain] revealed during the first quarter of 2011 increased 2.7% rate of attendance at Sunday Mass and other acts of worship in Spain (which comes to 43.7%), although the statistics are ambiguous in their results, because the same period has decreased by 1.1% in the number of English nationals who consider themselves Catholics (73.2%). Looking at other population studies, is that according to European Values \u200b\u200bStudy 2008, only 54.4% of the English were considered " a religious person" as opposed to the European average of 67.8%. And if we add those who say they are very interested or somewhat interested in the spiritual-and, generally, we leave half of English society: 49.8%. All these data can serve to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe "spiritual temperature " of Spain as sociology, and permeability that may be faced with the phenomenon of sects and new religious.

But I want to analyze, in particular, the relative numbers of youth. And for this I am going to serve the latest study published in Spain on this segment of the population, the Foundation Report Santa Maria " 2010 English Youth." According to the section on religion, written by Mayte Valls, " religion continues to occupy one of the last places on a scale of assessment of the most important things for young "between 15 and 24. There is no doubt that religious socialization is less, and that God is the great absentee in English families at a time of life marked by attitudes centered consumerist and hedonistic enjoyment. " In this context it is difficult for young people arising from concerns about the religious " he says, but ensures its stability as a symbolic reference.

The study reveals that 53.3% of young people define themselves as Catholic, compared with 16% indifferent, 9.3% of agnostics, 17.1% of atheists and 2% of believers of other religions. Moreover, among the believers would have a large percentage of young people not identified by the institution of the Church, religious practices and Catholic morality. Leaving this field, we see that an increasing number of young people who do not belong to any association (81%), and only 2.4% involved in charities, and 1.6% in religious groups. Not coincidentally, the association is greater in young people more religious.

even more interesting is the section of beliefs, where we find that 19.8% of young English people believe in reincarnation, surpassing 18.8% of those who affirm their faith in the resurrection of the dead. The study points to growing both the experience of a Catholic religion "a la carte " as what sociologists call the "civil religions " (about ecology, sports, body worship, etc.). .

Another important fact to consider is the concept of God, which can be opened, much to the proposals of new spiritualities. In particular, we find these definitions of the Supreme Being: " what is positive in men and women " (32.8%), " somewhat higher than those who created everything and everything depends "(35.9%) and, above all," forces and energies in the universe that affect the lives "(41.2%). All these answers to the question about God reveals a widespread perception of an impersonal deity, very typical of the pattern of the New Era. Selecting

other information of interest, we note that 69.5% of youth believe that it is possible to live the faith " individually, without sharing it with a community of believers ", and 50.1% argued that "it is a private matter and should be lived privately . " This is a strong religious individualism, although it seems at first glance that immunize the youth group of the important nature of sects, which left at the mercy of currents and intimate spiritual stamp of diverse cultures.

Finally, I consider essential in the figures of the confidence that these young people give so little religious (the third of which believes that "l a belief in God is a superstition as any other ") to the esoteric world of fundamental to the new religiosity. 34.7% believe that astrology horoscopes and " is or could be some real " 24.7% think the same of transhumance (various techniques of divination), a 18.7% trusts of healers or healing powers, and the lowest figure in the communication with the beyond, to convince the 14% of young people. The numbers, curiously, are higher in women than in men, in all cases.

considerable growth is observed in these para-beliefs with respect to previous surveys. There are conflicting data, the first and last. As stated by the sociologist Juan González-Anleo , " the decline in religious belief is usually accompanied by a rise of superstitions." This is very summary, and current data, the breeding ground for that time global crisis, the youth of the West, exemplified here in the English between 15 and 24, are a target audience largely offers the world of sects and new religious.