In this article, the author presents his survey on contemporary idol worship (idolatry) which is a new turn in mankind's phenomenon of social idol worship and an important manifestation of the cultural reconfiguration of contemporary times. The principal group of persons presently engaged in idol worship consists of children and young people. There were 1,200 questionnaires being sent and retrieved 966 valid exemplars. The subjects of the survey were students of junior and senior middle schools and colleges and universities, among whom 353 were junior middle schools students, 412 were in senior middle schools (including vocational senior middle schools or vocational secondary technical schools), and 210 were college and university students, respectively, between the ages of twelve and thirteen and twenty-one and twenty-two. Some 490, or 50.7 percent, were male students and 476, or 49.3 percent, were female. By means of this survey, the author ascertained the basic circumstances of idol worship among contemporary children and young people, discovered a number of distinct characteristics of present-day idol worship among contemporary children and young people, and brought some inspirations to educational work. (Contains 5 tables and 10 figures.)