https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1886
This article examines the religious formation of young people in the digital media age from the perspective of Christian personalism and the humanism of Francis de Sales. It argues that digital media function not merely as tools of religious communication but also as a cultural and formative environment that shapes young people’s faith, identity, relationships, and experience of community. Methodologically, the study combines source hermeneutics, theological comparativism, and discourse analysis, bringing research on digital religion, the mediatisation of religion, and youth religiosity into dialogue with the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier and Karol Wojtyła. The analysis identifies both the formative potential of digital religion and its structural limitations, particularly the fragmentation of religious experience, the dominance of affectivity and visibility, the selective consumption of religious content, and algorithmically conditioned forms of choice. Christian personalism is proposed as a hermeneutical framework and critical criterion for assessing whether digital religious practices support the integral development of the person as relational, free, and responsible. The humanism of Francis de Sales complements this framework through its emphasis on gradual growth, pedagogical gentleness, and the integration of reason, will, and affectivity. The article concludes that a personalist and Salesian perspective enables a critical yet constructive theological evaluation of youth religiosity and provides directions for responsible religious formation in digital culture.
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