Sensitive irreverence, religiosity, and cognitive resistance among professional millennials and centennials from Lima

Abstract

This research analyzes how recent generations are moving away from traditional religious practice in the context of digitalization, the introduction of AI, specialization, and digitization, toward an ecosystemic sensibility. Religious practice is being redesigned according to individual and collective interests that traffic in secular objects and ideas in a return to social cohesion and reciprocity based on historical grounds. The findings are based on open interviews and observations with five subjects from both generations, analyzing beliefs and habits, as well as their existential meaning, to demonstrate the origins of perceptions vis-à-vis the next generation as religious doctrines that for centuries were classic pillars of culture are fracturing. The political landscape in Peru maintains an extreme verticality of colonial power, translated into fears, complexes, and mistrust. The study reveals a lack of understanding of the exclusionary norms of Western culture and a temporary return to ancestral values.