Religiosity among Indigenous Peoples: A Study of Cordilleran Youth in the Philippines

Religions are a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices about transcendence. They formed by complex social cultural rituals customs. Given that religion is also vital to the Indigenous Peoples, this study employed Centrality Religiosity Scale (CRS) measure understand nuances religiosity youth Cordillera, known as Igorots, in Philippines. The Cordilleran youth’s particularly interesting researchers because their autochthonous marked cosmology includes hundreds deities elaborate accompanying personal events. Data collected from 151 university students showed highly religious, those living rural areas more religious than younger participants. strongly prefer private practice scored high ideology dimension CRS. tend devote themselves transcendence space through individualized activities rituals. This found select was ambivalent, defined coexistence different ideas or feelings mind single context. It shows inter-religiosity expressed engagement practices. paper discussed these significant results explored implications for Peoples youth.