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Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2008
This study draws together two research traditions: John Greer's pioneering research among pupils in Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and Leslie J. Francis's research concerning teenage religion and values in England and Wales. A sample of 1,585 13- to 15-year-old male pupils attending Catholic schools (n = 712) and Protestant…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, World Views
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Petersen, Larry R. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986
Examined assertion that interfaith marriages have secularizing effect on family members. Assessed effects of respondent's and his/her parents' type of religious marriage on 11 measures of religious commitment. Catholics married to non-Catholics scored lower on attending mass and receiving communion than Catholics in homogamous marriages, but most…
Descriptors: Catholics, Family Life, Interfaith Relations, Marriage
Widder, Keith R. – 1999
In 1823, evangelical missionaries William and Amanda Ferry opened a boarding school for Metis children on Mackinac Island, Michigan Territory, hoping to convert and transform the Metis people through their children. Instead, they helped bring about a revival of Catholicism, and their students refused to abandon the fur trading lifestyle. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Catholics