Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey
The aim of this paper is to perform a sociological and pastoral analysis of the religiousness of young people in Poland, which is a challenge to Catholic education. The authors analyse this issue based on the empirical study conducted in 2019 and 2020. The study employed an online survey questionnai...
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| author | Anna Zellma Andrzej Michał Kielian Wojsław Wojciech Czupryński Monique van Dijk-Groeneboer |
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| description | The aim of this paper is to perform a sociological and pastoral analysis of the religiousness of young people in Poland, which is a challenge to Catholic education. The authors analyse this issue based on the empirical study conducted in 2019 and 2020. The study employed an online survey questionnaire. The study included 1171 people, students in grades 7 and 8 of primary schools and of secondary schools in the Małopolskie and Podkarpackie Voivodships in Poland. The paper focuses on young people’s self-declarations concerning: the religion they profess, faith, affiliation with a religious community, a bond to the community, the respondents’ and their parents’ attending religious services, celebrations/masses and praying individually. It was regarded as important to determine the correlations between the self-declarations of affiliation with a religious community and self-declaration of the religion professed and between the self-declarations of faith and bond to a religious community and self-declaration of the religion professed. These issues are enriched with the respondents’ opinions on religion as a school subject. They provide an insight into not only the respondents’ religiousness but also a diagnosis of young people’s attitudes towards religion as a school subject. They allow for conclusions to be drawn on Catholic education in the secularising society, especially with young people increasingly often quitting religious lessons in schools. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22095c777c264199a18477b39e15031f2023-11-24T17:44:02ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442022-11-011312114210.3390/rel13121142Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a SurveyAnna Zellma0Andrzej Michał Kielian1Wojsław Wojciech Czupryński2Monique van Dijk-Groeneboer3Faculty of Theology, University of Warmia and Mazury, 10-719 Olsztyn, PolandFaculty of Theology, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, 31-002 Kraków, PolandFaculty of Theology, University of Warmia and Mazury, 10-719 Olsztyn, PolandTilburg School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The NetherlandsThe aim of this paper is to perform a sociological and pastoral analysis of the religiousness of young people in Poland, which is a challenge to Catholic education. The authors analyse this issue based on the empirical study conducted in 2019 and 2020. The study employed an online survey questionnaire. The study included 1171 people, students in grades 7 and 8 of primary schools and of secondary schools in the Małopolskie and Podkarpackie Voivodships in Poland. The paper focuses on young people’s self-declarations concerning: the religion they profess, faith, affiliation with a religious community, a bond to the community, the respondents’ and their parents’ attending religious services, celebrations/masses and praying individually. It was regarded as important to determine the correlations between the self-declarations of affiliation with a religious community and self-declaration of the religion professed and between the self-declarations of faith and bond to a religious community and self-declaration of the religion professed. These issues are enriched with the respondents’ opinions on religion as a school subject. They provide an insight into not only the respondents’ religiousness but also a diagnosis of young people’s attitudes towards religion as a school subject. They allow for conclusions to be drawn on Catholic education in the secularising society, especially with young people increasingly often quitting religious lessons in schools.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/12/1142youthreligiousnessreligious lessonsCatholic educationPolandsociology |
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| title | Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey |
| title_full | Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey |
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| title_short | Religiousness of Young People in Poland as a Challenge to Catholic Education: Analyses Based on a Survey |
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