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Derrek Belase – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this project was to explore current methods of onboarding, mentoring, and training district lay leaders in The United Methodist Church in an attempt to provide a new model based on situated learning (legitimate peripheral participation) for doing this work in the changing environment of the church and culture. The author surveyed…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Lay People, Protestants, Churches
Leslie J. Francis; Ursula McKenna; Susan H. Jones – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
Metaphors were introduced to the science of cathedral studies by Muskett in her book, "Shop window, flagship, common ground." Such metaphors have the power to inform and shape the perception of cathedrals, but lack theological or ecclesial authority. Gary Hall's analysis of "The purpose of cathedrals" offers a different…
Descriptors: Churches, Religious Education, Christianity, Protestants
Shin Woong Rhee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this project is to change the elderly's perception of Somang School through lifelong education. The role of the elderly in an aging church is more important than ever. The church should help them play a pivotal role in the church, Eight participants participated in this project in 12 sessions at Somang School belonging to Somang…
Descriptors: Churches, Lifelong Learning, Church Role, Older Adults
Piljoo P. Kang – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
This study investigates the influence of church mentoring on the psychosocial development of adolescents from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds. Framed within ecological systems and sociocultural theories, it examines mentoring processes in fostering positive youth development. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fifteen…
Descriptors: Mentors, Churches, Ethnic Groups, Social Bias
Francis Davis – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
The developing science of cathedral studies has focused mainly on Anglican cathedrals. The present study argues for drawing Catholic cathedrals into this field. Employing data gathered from the websites of the 22 Catholic cathedrals in England and Wales, alongside data gathered from the diocesan reports submitted to the Charity Commission, this…
Descriptors: Catholics, Churches, Web Sites, Institutional Mission
Joel Barnes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Religious Colleges
Peck-McClain, Emily A. – Religious Education, 2021
United Methodist Church polity bars "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from ordination and prohibits same-sex wedding celebrations in their churches or by their clergy. Recently, the consequences for disobeying church polity have increased in severity and the denomination is expected to split. This paper profiles three churches who…
Descriptors: Protestants, Churches, Religious Education, Homosexuality
Sarah Wing-yin Lee; Bo-Wah Leung – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2022
Song leading sections for children are available on a weekly basis in religious settings in Hong Kong, yet there has been limited amount of research drawn over this learning platform on developing children's social and emotional competence. This study aims to investigate the extent to which Song Leading sections in Hong Kong Protestant churches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, Churches, Protestants
Fawcett, Bruce G.; Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
This paper explores the impact of parental religious practice on sustaining positive religious affect among churchgoing young Canadian Baptists. A total of 299 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Parent Child Relationship, Attendance
Han, Garam – Religious Education, 2021
Through the story of Korean Bible Women and the South Korean #MeToo movement today, this paper explores how Korean women's innate creativity and imagination have challenged the patriarchal and hierarchical standpoints of the Korean Protestant church and society. Furthermore, this paper invites the Korean Protestant Church to confront the reality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Churches, Females
Barnes, L. Philip – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
The aim of this article is to interact with Anita Gracie and Andrew W Brown's recent account of the historical development and nature of Controlled schools and of religious education in Northern Ireland in this journal. A complementary perspective is used to illustrate how the relationship between the Protestant churches and Controlled schools has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Religious Education, Protestants
Christiani, Tabita Kartika – Religious Education, 2022
This paper is based on a quantitative research study of Christian adolescents in junior and senior high schools, in 12 Protestant churches in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, concerning their perceptions about LGBTQ+ sexualities. Using a "normalcy" perspective from disability studies, the study finds heterosexuality is normative; other sexual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Junior High School Students, High School Students
Rackley, Eric D. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2020
Informed by interpretive phenomenological analysis and sociocultural theory, this study examines the language experiences of seven Methodist youth. Analysis of 9 months of observations and 30 interviews yielded a set of experiences that represent the intimacy and complexity of youths' religious discourses. As an essential feature of this…
Descriptors: Christianity, Phenomenology, Sociocultural Patterns, Protestants
Garavito-Munoz, Edwin – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper attempts to look at the Colombian case of secularisation, touching on the current state of religion and Religious Education from three perspectives: the law, the Catholic Church, and the wider society, to determine the challenges acquired by the gap developed between religion, religiosity and secular legislation. With this in mind, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Federal Legislation, Laws
Nie, Fanhao; Price, Anne – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
Prior research on the effect of religion on prejudicial attitudes against sexual minorities has looked into how religion may influence public attitudes towards homosexual behaviours, gay marriage, and same-sex adoption. However, less is known about how religion may influence employment discrimination against gays in the education industry where…
Descriptors: College Faculty, LGBTQ People, Homosexuality, Social Bias