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Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Barnes, L. Philip; Lewis, Christopher A. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
The aim of the present study was to build on John Greer's systematic set of studies concerned with teenage beliefs and values conducted among samples of sixth form students attending County and Protestant voluntary schools in Northern Ireland in 1968, 1978 and 1988. The present study replicated the earlier surveys for a further time in 1998. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Protestants, Religion
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Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Barnes, L. Philip; Sion, Tania ap – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Northern Ireland is a province that remains deeply divided between Protestants and Catholics and maintains a segregated system of schools. Purpose: The research builds on a series of studies conducted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to monitor the attitude toward Christianity of males and females educated in Protestant and Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Females
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Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2005
The present study has built on three earlier studies reported by Francis and Burton (1994), Francis and Evans (1996), and Francis (2005) to test the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between frequency of prayer and perceived purpose in life among 13-to 15-year-old young people who are within a community with high levels of church…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Catholics, Protestants