Beyond secularization: science, faith and the perception of young people.

Beyond secularization: science, faith and the perception of young people
seminar of the group Science, Reason and Faith.
Carmen Callizo. Pamplona, December 16, 2024

Carmen Callizo is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra. She has a degree in Philosophy, a Master's Degree in Education and another in Religious and Cultural programs of study , as well as a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Granada. She has spent time at the universities of Boston and California, and is soon to spend time at Harvard. His current research field is the psychology of religion. She is developing lines of empirical research focused on the role of religion and culture on the ability to forgive and on the consideration of time, conceptualized in attitudes towards traditional values and the idea of progress. He has recently received, together with other researchers, the "Open Science Religionaward " from the Templeton Foundation for the project "Linking religiosity, space, and time through abstraction level".

summary
In a context marked by social crises, the perception of the relationship between science and religion is undergoing various transformations. This phenomenon is particularly present among young people, whose openness to new ideas and search for identity places them at the center of these changes. This seminar will address this scenario based on an empirical study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries involving young Christians of various denominations, Muslims, agnostics and atheists. The analysis will focus on how cultural values linked to the past - tradition - and those oriented towards the future - progress - are intertwined in times of social crisis, relating both to the perception and experience of religion, as well as to the attitude towards science and scientific-technological development . This reflection will culminate in a review of the prevailing theory on secularization, which postulates that "the more modernity, the less religiosity", and the consideration of alternatives that challenge this perspective. Within the established framework , various ways of understanding the relationship between faith and modernity among young people will be explored.