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Sarah Henseler; Mary Grace Neville; Hind Lebdaoui – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
As emerging adult college students ponder their religious/spiritual beliefs and identities, those in religiously diverse countries (e.g. the USA) often encounter beliefs different from their own. These encounters can prompt new perspectives on their own beliefs and elicit responses from rejection to incorporation of the diverging belief, thus…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Self Concept, Cultural Differences
Wecker, Menachem – Education Next, 2019
Jewish schools educated more than 151,000 students in New York State in 2013, the last year a careful count was done. And taxpayers have a stake in how well the yeshivas are doing their jobs. The Jewish schools absorb more than $100 million a year in city government funds for things such as textbooks, special education, security, and…
Descriptors: Jews, Religious Education, Clergy, Private Schools
Nie, Fanhao – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
Previous research has demonstrated that individual religious beliefs and practices are associated with educational outcomes. However, less is known about the manner in which the overall religious cultural influence of a religion can affect an individual's educational aspirations. Using multilevel analyses on two waves of the National Study of…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Youth, Adolescent Development
Pope, Elizabeth M.; Nicolaides, Aliki – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
Within current interfaith dialogue scholarship, perspective transformation towards the religious other is one of the most desired outcomes. However, exactly how such transformed perspectives come about and the characteristics of this transformation have not been adequately researched. In this study, we examine transformative learning within…
Descriptors: Religion, Intergroup Relations, Dialogs (Language), Attitude Change
Pew Research Center, 2017
This analysis looks at measures of religious identification and commitment among Americans with different levels of education. Looking at the U.S. public as a whole, the answer to the question of whether more education is correlated with less religion appears to be yes. Among all U.S. adults, college graduates are considerably less likely than…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Educational Attainment, Adults
Mayhew, Matthew J.; Bowman, Nicholas A.; Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This study examined the perceptions of campus climate among students of diverse worldviews. Results from this study suggest that climate perceptions and experiences were more negative among worldview majority students (e.g., Protestants, Catholics) than among worldview minority students (e.g., Muslims, Jews) and nonreligious students. Theoretical…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, World Views, College Students
King, Pamela Ebstyne; Clardy, Casey E.; Ramos, Jenel Sánchez – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2014
This qualitative study aimed to develop theory about psychological constructs relevant to spiritual development in diverse adolescents. Exemplar and Consensual Qualitative Research methods were used to explore 30 interviews of adolescents aged 12 to 21 years ("M" = 17.73 years) representing eight religions and six countries from around…
Descriptors: Religion, Adolescents, Spiritual Development, Qualitative Research
Goodall, Janet – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2013
Previous literature has shown the importance of parental engagement for children's outcomes; a largely separate body of literature has shown that there are clear effects on children's outcomes related to parental religion. This article is a literature review of these two fields, with the aim of relating them to each other. The article suggests two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Religion, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Al Sadi, Fatma H.; Basit, Tehmina N. – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
This paper examines the impact of a school-based intervention entitled "Our Brothers and Sisters in Humanity" on 10th grade female Omani students' religious tolerance. A questionnaire was administered before and after an intervention to a sample of 241 girls, of whom 116 were in the experimental group and 125 in the control group. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Religious Discrimination, Intervention
Bon, Susan C. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2009
In this experimental study, a national random sample of high school principals (stratified by gender) were asked to evaluate hypothetical applicants whose resumes varied by religion (Jewish, Catholic, nondenominational) and gender (male, female) for employment as assistant principals. Results reveal that male principals rate all applicants higher…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Sampling, Personnel Evaluation
Rosenfeld, Michael J. – Social Forces, 2008
This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Race, Protestants, Jews
Mullins, Larry C.; Brackett, Kimberly P.; Bogie, Donald W.; Pruett, Daniel – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This study examines the question Does the rate of currently divorced in counties in the United States vary inversely to the relative percentage of concentration of adherents of seven different religious denominational groupings--Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, conservative Protestant, moderate Protestant, liberal Protestant, and miscellaneous…
Descriptors: Protestants, Jews, Counties, Divorce
Ben-Nun, Merav – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A comparative case study of integrated schools in two regions of conflict, this study addresses the potential and limitations of education to promote individual and societal processes of change and peace building. In modern societies, education is expected to play a central function in socializing young generations into their culture and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Social Change
Rayburn, Carole A.; And Others – 1988
This study examined stress, strain, and coping mechanisms in women religious leaders. Subjects were nuns (N=51), Reform women rabbis (N=45), Episcopal women priests (N=32), United Methodist clergywomen (N=45) and Presbyterian clergywomen (N=45), matched for age and years on the job and pulpit assignments. All subjects were given the Osipow and…
Descriptors: Clergy, Coping, Females, Jews
Xu, Xiaohe; Hudspeth, Clark D.; Bartkowski, John P. – Journal of Family Issues, 2005
Using survey data from a nationally representative sample, this article explores how marriage timing varies across major religious denominations. Survival analysis indicates that net of statistical controls, Catholics, moderate Protestants, conservative Protestants, and Mormons marry significantly earlier than their unaffiliated counterparts. This…
Descriptors: Protestants, Marriage, Jews, Catholics
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