Straying from the faith: Experiences of teenagers who turned to atheism

• Main Authors: Agustin, Beatriz Bianca P., Ching, Aldrich N., Puno, Julian Ricardo P., Rentoy, Camille G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Atheists > Philippines; Theists > Philippines; Religious adherents > Philippines; Agnosticism > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/5969
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper aims to delve deeper in the experiences of teenagers who are currently in their college years after discovering that they are atheists. The researchers propose to find out what led these teenagers to become atheists. The paper focuses on the process of becoming an atheists and its effect on the individual. The researchers had conducted a one-on-one interview with four (4) participants between the ages of nineteen (19) and twenty (20). All the participants were Filipino and a self-identified atheist. Also, the researchers analyzed the result of the interview using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method guided by the Constructivist-Interpretivist Theory.