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Mathew, Linita Eapen – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
Despite the decline of rituals in North America, contemporary grief literature emphasises the healing potential of these practices. After my father's death, and due to my cultural hybridity as an Indo-Canadian, once the short-term western ways of mourning concluded, long-term Indian rituals offered meaningful and sustaining ways to honour my…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Asian Culture, Ethnography, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ostrander, Rick – Christian Higher Education, 2015
We are currently experiencing a global revolution in Christian higher education. As chronicled in Carpenter, Glanzer, and Lantinga's 2014 volume titled "Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance," Christian universities are expanding rapidly around the globe. My institution, Cornerstone University, has been involved in this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Reflection, Christianity
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Satyanarayana, P.; DK Meduri, Emmanuel – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Distance Education has been growing fast, in a marvelously diverse fashion. The efficiency, effectiveness, validity and utility of distance teaching-learning are on increase. All communities and religious groups are making use of distance learning methodology to upgrade their knowledge, skills and attitudes. Christian educational institutions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Christianity
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Eaton, Richard M. – Journal of World History, 1997
Explores the reasons for the extraordinary conversion to Christianity among the Naga peoples of northeastern India. Almost the entire population has converted within the last 100 years. Tests the usefulness of models of religious change generated from fieldwork on conversion in Africa, specifically Robin Horton's "intellectualist"…
Descriptors: Christianity, Colonialism, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences