Ways to Attract Young People

Paying attention to the youth as the most important human capital of a society is of utmost importance, and a healthy, dynamic and advanced society needs educated and religious young people. Although young people are innately ready to embrace religion and be educated, the youth of today live in a society where globalization, cyberspace, and cultural aggression can transform their religious identity. Considering the harms of religiosity, this study seeks to explain the strategies for attracting young people to religion and institutionalizing religiosity. In order to attract young people to religion, it is necessary for parents and educators to establish a sympathetic relationship with the young person in a constructive interaction, while recognizing the young person's characteristics and respecting his beliefs and while lining up their statements with their practice they also need to wisely put the religious teachings, and correctly introduce religion, provide answers to the questions and doubts of the youths, to pave the way for their attraction to religion and protection against cultural invasion.