21 st century evangelization & faith formation the changing landscape john roberto
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2 1 S T C E N T U RY E VA N G E L I Z AT I O N & FA I T H F O R M AT I O N
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE
JOHN ROBERTO
FOUR SESSION PROGRAM
1. Understanding the Changing Landscape for 21st Century Evangelization & Faith Formation
2. Interpreting the Diversity of Religious & Spiritual Needs of the People Today
3. Designing Strategies for Evangelization & Faith Formation around the Religious & Spiritual Needs of People Today
4. Making 21st Century Evangelization & Faith Formation a Reality
CHANGING LANDSCAPE
New Conte
xt
Religious
Generational
Technological
Economic
Family
Socio-Cultural
KEY STUDIES
www.PewResearch.org www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org
GROWING DIVERSITY
Generational Developmental Ethnic & Cultural Family Structures Faith Practice &
CommunityEngagement
Religious & Spiritual Needs
DEVELOPMENTAL & GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY
Developmental Children Adolescents Emerging Adults Young Adults Mid-Life Adults Mature Adults Older Adults
Generational1. iGeneration2. Millennials 3. Generation X4. Baby Boomers5. Builders
5-GENERATION DIVERSITY
iGeneration (2000 - )
Millennials (1980-99)
Generation X (1961-79)
Baby Boomers (1946-60)
Builders (pre 1946)
CHANGING GENERATIONBABY BOOMERS
About 10,000 Boomers will turn 65 every day for the next 18 years.
A new stage of life between adult midlife – typically focused on career and child-rearing – and old age, traditionally marked by increasing frailty and decline. This new stage (60s-70s) is characterized by generally good health, relative financial stability, and an active, engaged lifestyle.
GENERATIONAL CHANGE
GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Significant Generational Change began in the early 1990s among the younger generations and is influencing society and the older generations.
These trends are having a significant impact on a Life Cycle approach to faith formation and church life, in general.
CHANGING GENERATIONS
1. Increasing number of “Nones” – no religious affiliation
2. Increasing number of “Spiritual but not Religious”
3. Embracing diversity – cultural, ethnic, sexual
4. Declining participation in Sunday worship and sacraments (marriage, baptism)
5. Declining levels of family faith practice & socialization
NO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
15% of all Americans claim no religious affiliation (2008; today: 19%)
25% of all 18-29 years 10% drop in the number of Christians
The challenge to Christianity in the U.S. does not come from other religions but from a rejection of all forms of organized religion.
SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS
Today, 18% of 18-39 year olds say that are “spiritual, but not religious” compared to only 11% a decade ago.
DIVERSITY IN FAITH PRACTICE & RELIGIOSITY
Not Religiously Affiliated
Spiritual but Not
Religious
Minimal Engageme
nt with Faith and Communit
y
Vibrant Faith
& Active Engageme
nt
DECLINING RELIGIOUS PARTICIPATION
Declining worship attendance Declining participation in celebration of
sacraments & rites of passage
Example: The number of marriages celebrated in the Catholic Church has fallen from 415,487 in 1972 to 168,400 in 2010 — a decrease of nearly 60% — while the Catholic population has increased by almost 17 million. To put this another way, this is a shift from 8.6 marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 1972 to 2.6 marriages per 1,000 Catholics in 2010. (CARA, 2011)
CHANGING PARTICIPATION PATTERNS
Fewer Marriages & Later in
Life
Fewer Baptism
s
Fewer Young
Families
Lower Sunday
Worship
Few First Communions
Fewer Confirmations
CHANGING FAMILIES
Changing family patterns and structures 1. Growing diversity in family structures2. Increasing number of unmarried
couples living together3. Delaying marriage: marrying later and
having children later in life4. Not marrying and having children 5. Decreasing number of children in two-
parent households
CHANGING VIEWS OF FAMILY
A Famil
y
Not a Famil
y
Married Coupled with Children 99 1
Married Couple without Children 88 10
Single Parent with Children 86 12
Unmarried Couple with Children 80 18
Same-Sex Couple with Children 63 34
Same-Sex Couple without Children 45 52
Unmarried Coupled without Children 43 54Pew Research, 2011
CHANGING VIEWS OF FAMILY
Fully eight-in-ten adults younger than 30 say a same-sex couple with children is a family, more than double the proportion of those 65 and older who share this view (80% vs. 37%).
Among those ages 30 to 49, two-thirds (67%) see a same-sex couple with children as a family, compared with 58% of all 50- to 64-year-olds.
(Pew Research, 2011)
FAMILY RELIGIOUS SOCIALIZATION
Parental Influence: The single most important social influence on the religious and spiritual lives of children and adolescents is their parents.
Embedded Family Religious Practices: Effective religious socialization comes about through specific religious activities that are firmly intertwined with the daily habits of family life
FAMILY RELIGIOUS SOCIALIZATION
Faith
Parental Faith
Parental Modeling
& TeachingPrayer
Scripture Reading
FAMILY RELIGIOUS SOCIALIZATION
Children and teenagers with seriously religious parents are more
likely than those without such parents to have been trained in their lives to think, feel, believe, and act as serious religious believers, and
that that training “sticks” with them even when the leave home and enter
emerging adulthood.(Souls in Transition: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of
Emerging Adults by Christian Smith with Patricia Snell)
CHANGING TECHNOLOGY
CHANGING TECHNOLOGY
NEW RESOURCES
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INCREASE IN HOME BROADBAND
Home broadband
66%
CHANGING TECHNOLOGY
INCREASE IN INTERNET USERS – 80%
INCREASE IN SOCIAL NETWORKING – 52% OF ADULTS
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%
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25%
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1%7%
13%
26%33%
35%
18-29 30-49 50-64 65+
% of internet users
INCREASE IN SMARTPHONES – 46%
67 million iPads sold since 2010 when it was introduced.
INCREASE IN TABLETS
Prediction: 665 million tablets by 2016
2012: 120 million tablets – a 100% increase over 2011.
CHANGING SOCIETY
New Social Network Operating System
The Triple Revolution
1. Social Network Revolution
2. Internet Revolution3. Mobile Revolution
SOCIAL NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM
The Social Network, Internet, and Mobile Revolutions are coming together to shift people’s social lives away from densely knit family, neighborhood, and group relationships toward more far-flung, less tight, more diverse personal networks.
SOCIAL NETWORKOPERATING SYSTEM
The Social Networks Revolution provided opportunities—and stresses—for people to reach beyond the world of tightly knit groups
SOCIAL NETWORKOPERATING SYSTEM
The Internet Revolution has given people communications power and information-gathering capacities that dwarf those of the past. It has allowed people to become their own publishers and broadcasters and created new methods for social networking.
This has changed the point of contact from the household (and work group) to the individual. Each person creates her own internet experiences, tailored to her needs.
SOCIAL NETWORKOPERATING SYSTEM
The Mobile Revolution has allowed ICTs (internet communication technologies) to become body appendages allowing people to access friends and information at will, wherever they go. In return, ICTs are always accessible.
There is the possibility of a continuous presence and pervasive awareness of others in the network. People’s physical separation by time and space are less important.
SOCIAL NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM
Networked Individualism
The three revolutions have made possible the new social operating
system – Networked Individualism. The hallmark of networked individualism is
that people function more as connected individuals and less as
embedded group members.
NETWORKED INDIVIDUALS
Individual
Friends
Education
Life Stage
WorkSports & Activities
Interests
Shared Experience
s
SOCIAL NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM
Networked Individualism This stands in contrast to the longstanding
social arrangements formed around large hierarchical bureaucracies and small, densely knit groups such as households, communities, and workgroups.
It is an operating system because it describes the ways in which people connect, communicate, and exchange information.
CONVERGENCE
21st Century Evangelization & Faith Formation
New Landscape
New Technologi
es
New (Digital)
ResourcesNew Social Operating
System
New Models of Learning