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

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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

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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