“Does It Actually Make Any Sense?” Contemporary (Un)Religious Experiences of the Young Generation

Abstract: Researches conducted in recent years on the religiousness of Poles, with particular emphasis on young people, point to very noticeable process of abandoning religious practices and declarations of faith. So far, in Poland, the majority of research on religion and faith are based on quantitative approach. In the project “Post-transformation in the perspective of biographical experiences of people born between 1980-2005. A sociological analysis” we conducted 80 autobiographical narrative interviews with people born in the 80., 90., 2000-2005. The interviews were focused on the individuals’ overall life experience. In the third part of the interview all the narrators were asked about their attitude to faith and religion. These answers can be analysed in the context of narrators autobiographical stories what shows various backgrounds of their contemporary experiencing of faith, and especially spirituality. Family background, (social)media discourses and the dynamics of social and political events appear to be the most crucial in this process. In the presentation I will discuss the results of analysis of this phenomena.