Rohit Singh was born in a Hindu family, but does not recognize as religious. The 24-year, however, sometimes goes to the local temple as well as the gurudwara, worship and assembly place. Sikhism,
Singh believed in astrology, and this month joined his cousins on Kanwar Yatra, the annual pilgrimage of devotees in India, one of the three prominent Hindu deities prestigious in India.
“I am not religious, I am spiritual,” he said to DW. “I do not go to the temple often as my parents, I sometimes go for calm and peiaful vibe. When I was on the way to find a job and my mental health was on him.”
Residents of Gurugram, a technology and finance center, outside the capital, outside New Delhi, still did not get a job. But he says that his spirituality has helped his mental health.
“A lot of my friends are like me. We just want to console,” hey says.
Interest in religion is decreasing worldwide. A study by Pew Research Center It has been shown that religious affiliation globally in the decade from 2010 to 2020 fur globally.
But in India, this is a different story.
General Jade using spirituality
In the same Pew study, the global population of Hindus – 95% of which live in India, where they create 80% of the population – remain stable, where the number of Muslims, who represent more than 14% of Indians, grow.
Unlike many people around the world, the youth of India, who forms 65% of their population, seems to be re -associated with religion and spirituality. But they are doing it in their own way.
A YouGov-Mint survey showed that 53% of India’s gene Z-refers to people born between 1997 and 2012, which is important religion of religion and 62% of them regularly pray.
An MTV youth study in 2021 found that 62 % of India’s General Z believes that spirituality helps them to achieve clarity. About 70% said that they feel more confident after prayer.
Psychologist Manvi Khurana told DW, “General Z has a lot of vocabulary, which can bend to explain what they are feeling, which is different from the previous generations.”
Khurna said, “Healing, grounding, stay in contact with yourself.
He is the founder of Karma Care, a mental health organization in Delhi, with a mixture of millennium (people born between 1981 and 1996) and General Z client.
Khurana said, “There are many people joining Hinduism in view of the current political atmosphere.”
He said, “Many people find consolation in religion. If they completely lose hope, they find religion or some mantras or supplies that help them find that hope. They may not have many other support systems at this time,” she explained.
“If spirituality leads to extremism, it is not the best scenario. But if some use it as a way to contact the bag and use it as a way to use a copy system, it is very important,” Khurana said.
Young people are not getting away from Indian religion – they are rebuilding it and adapting it.
Low rituals, more privatization
The 27 -year -old Surya is a single traveler and impressive with more than 290,000 followers on Instagram. Many of his trips are spiritual inclination.
Surya has traveled to several major Hindu pilgrimage sites and festivals, including the Kumbh Mela in Tragraj this year, in 2021 Kedarnath and Haridwar Kumbh.
She says that while social media platforms and affected have made religion more accessible to young generations, it is much more than this.
“Spirituality is no longer seen as ‘boring’ or only for the old. It is becoming a way to find peace in a chaotic modern life,” he told DW.
“Youths of Tari are not chasing with eyes closed. You are asking why, how, and individually searching. Because they are instead of participating in temples, because they have to do, ‘they can visit Varanasi, Rishikesh (foundation) to feel something,” Shing.
Government to promote Hinduism
During an address by Parliament this year, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi said that the youth are “lying with their traditions, faith and pride, which reflect a strong relationship for India’s cultural heritage.”
Hey, what is speaking in front of the Maha Kumbh Mela, which from January to February this year saw the hero and thousands of young people.
Modi’s right -wing, Hindu nationalist government has pumped funds to develop and promote the discovery of important religious places in the form of Ayodhya. The states of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have announced a plan to rebuild sites of religious, historical and mythological importance.
Spiritual materials on social media
With a significant discovery for the interaction of young people with social media and engagement with spirituality, some critics games make public platform experience less authentic or protesters.
Psychologist Khurana says that while it can be an element of truth, which does not make the relationship of youth inhuman with religion or spirituality inhuman.
“Just because many genes communicate via Z -Z. Instagram or Internet and this is their method of community, we cannot write it as a total performance,” he said, indicating that the youth baked “brought around the phone and raised by technology.”
Using yoga, meditation, astrology and even spiritual leaders and speakers, everyone appeals to the youth of the country.
For a 2023 survey by OMTV, an app with a spiritual story story, 80% of Indians are engaged online with spiritual or religious materials in the age group of 18 to 30.
“The world of General Z is any kind and faster than before. Therefore, their entry points for spirituality are different. They cannot read fetire scriptures, but they will list the 60-second clip of Gita knowledge. They cannot sit in the temple for hours, but they will meditate 10 minutes at night.
Edited by: Carl Sexton
