L’educazione spirituale

Abstract

In my research I intend to explore the spiritual and religious feelings of the "new generation" of young people trying to present that speak in the first person, through the use of qualitative methods, such as questionnaire. During this last year of my PhD I focused mainly on the creation and administration of the questionnaire that will be the linchpin of my thesis work. The aspects that I wish to emphasize is the lack of a spiritual quest that comes from preadolescence to youth age par excellence characterized by lower levels of participation in this area. My purpose is not to draw the profiles of spirituality, but to turn on a light, albeit dim, new processes of identity construction involving these aspects of personality. The questionnaire developed by me and Prof. E. Manx is completely original and was born from the need to assess the way in which young people today perceive spirituality, understanding, and not in the religious sense, and their relationship with social networks. E 'consists of forty questions, of which twenty-one multiple choice and open-response nineteen, and it was by me administered to a sample of sixty boys, all teens, students in their last year of High School and Language. The first part of the questionnaire aimed to investigate the nature of the choices put in place in the religious sphere from the boys, while the second part investigates the way of approaching them with social networks. Groped in a non-trivial to reconstruct the thoughts and feelings of young people in the space of religion is a task that a job search can not cope without taking into account a certain amount of uncertainty. Uncertainty dictated the approach is qualitative and therefore subject to numerous interpretations, both by the argument itself, its size of intimacy and privacy. The instrument of the questionnaire used to collect, however, the responses to the questions asked and to process the results, it is a research strategy that should be followed if you want to describe trends, comparing different social groups, give an idea of the spread of certain beliefs and attitudes. We must consider that not everyone feels at ease in dealing with certain issues and thus the degree of involvement may be mostly superficial type. I chose this topic and this type of approach as fascinated by the argument, its elusiveness and its relevance. We live in an era in its full change. Young people no longer follow the rules and passed, or imposed by family or society. The peer group that had once taken the place of these training agencies, changes its way of life to make room for a virtual world inhabited by entities of all types. There, where everything is possible, even choose to be a totally different person from actually laying the foundations of the new processes of socialization and "education". [edited by author]