The Spirituality of Atheist and “No Religion” Individuals in the Millennial Generation: Developing New Research Approaches for a New Form of Spirituality

S. Bahan
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As of 2011, those who identify as non-religious represented a portion of Canada’s population 2.5 times larger than the combined total of those reporting as Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh, and Hindu, with no indication that the rate of growth for this population is subsiding. Despite this growing population, religiously unaffiliated spiritual millennials are going undetected in the academic literature, and there is confusion between contemporary understandings of spirituality and religiousness for both researchers and millennials. Researchers seeking to understand the spiritual lives of millennials have typically assessed the growth of this movement by the number of individuals who identify as “spiritual but not religious,” a phrase which emerged alongside the 1960s New Age movement to describe the so-called ‘spiritual seekers.’ This paper seeks to identify some of the sources of millennial spirituality, such as culture shifts during the 1960s and 70s and the secularization of the Canadian public education system, and to define a new form of spirituality unique to millennials. Alternative approaches to studying this group are proposed, and it is suggested that the phrase “spiritual but not religious” is no longer sufficient for understanding the spirituality of religiously unaffiliated individuals.
千禧一代无神论者和“无宗教”个体的灵性:为一种新的灵性形式开发新的研究方法
截至2011年,无宗教信仰者占加拿大人口的比例是穆斯林、犹太教徒、佛教徒、锡克教徒和印度教徒总和的2.5倍,而且没有迹象表明这一人口的增长速度正在下降。尽管人口不断增长,但在学术文献中却没有发现与宗教无关的灵性千禧一代,而且研究人员和千禧一代对灵性和宗教的当代理解都存在混淆。试图了解千禧一代精神生活的研究人员通常通过“有精神但不信教”的人数来评估这一运动的增长,这个词是在20世纪60年代的新时代运动中出现的,用来描述所谓的“精神寻求者”。“本文试图确定千禧一代精神的一些来源,例如20世纪60年代和70年代的文化转变以及加拿大公共教育系统的世俗化,并定义千禧一代独特的新精神形式。”有人提出了研究这一群体的其他方法,并建议“精神但不是宗教”这一短语不再足以理解无宗教信仰的个人的精神。
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