In Chile, the percentage of those who call themselves “without religión” is growing. Hence, this identification has gone from being a residual container (the unclassifiable in preconceived answers), to being a fundamental category to understand what is lived in this field. Through interviews and validation workshops with the interviewees themselves, it is concluded that being “without religion” contains in youth a diversity of changes that reveal the search for freedom, detachment from institutions and the conception of a spirituality as something greater than religion.
Keywords:
YOUTH, RELIGION, CULTURAL CHANGE.
Author Biographies
Jorge Baeza Correa
Sociólogo, doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. Investigador del Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Juventud de la Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez. Correo electrónico: jbaeza@ucsh.cl
Patricia Imbarack Dagach
Psicóloga, doctora en Ciencias de la Educación. Directora de Pedagogía en Religión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Correo electrónico: paimbara@uc.cl
