La Religione e gli adolescenti: una ricerca empirica nel territorio di Sassari

This study came out of the need to explore, describe and understand the impact of religion on adolescents’ education. The research consisted of the following steps: identification of areas for exploration, definition of the target, preparation of the empirical research and data processing. The reference population is composed of 1242 students aged between 13 and 15, belonging to 55 classes attending the third year of junior high school in Sassari, subdivided into urban, rural and suburban areas. A questionnaire was administered to the sample of 273 students selected as representative in terms of the variables of gender and age. This research allowed us to compare the importance, power and influence of religion on different adolescent cultural components, in a specific local context.The results obtained show that in daily life the adolescent experiences ambivalence between the normative code of the family, still traditionally very strong (especially in the countryside) and the values of the postmodern adolescent, who through the new media seems to be aware of a world which contains new symbols, forms and rites.