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Welch, Michael R.; Sikkink, David; Loveland, Matthew T. – Social Forces, 2007
Data from the 2002 Religion and Public Activism Survey were used to examine relationships among measures of religious orientation, embeddedness in social networks and the level of trust individuals direct toward others. Results from ordered logistic regression analysis demonstrate that Catholics and members of other denominations show…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Protestants, Religion, Social Networks
Donnelly, Caitlin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to compare the approach to promoting positive relationships between Catholics and Protestants in two types of integrated primary school in Northern Ireland. Drawing on qualitative interviews with teachers, governors and parents in one transforming school and one grant maintained integrated school, i.e. one…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Desegregation, Cultural Differences, Community Relations
Alexander, Kern – Journal of Education Finance, 2008
United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a plurality of the Court in "Mitchell v. Helms" in 2000, advanced the idea that state constitutional prohibitions against public funding of religious schools were manifestations of anti-Catholic bigotry in the late 19th century. Thomas's reading of history and law led him to believe…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Nationalism
Schur, Joan Brodsky – Social Education, 2007
Most students assume that a thriving society runs smoothly because people abide by the laws. But there are various informal, as well as formal, means of social control such as gossip, ridicule, and shame that function even in complex societies to achieve social control, or conformity to group norms. Good teaching ideas have the potential to lead…
Descriptors: United States History, Protestants, Community Schools, Social Control
McGlynn, Claire – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
This article explores perspectives on the current contribution of integrated schools to society in Northern Ireland and asks whether there is a mismatch between what some expect from the schools and what they may be able to provide. It suggests that integrated education may for some be a magic panacea, whilst those leading the sector see the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Administrator Attitudes, School Desegregation, Foreign Countries
Rollocks, Steve C. T.; Dass, Natasha; Seepersad, Randy; Mohammed, Linda – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
This study examined the role of religiosity among adolescents' and adults' alcohol use in Trinidad. A stratified random sample design of 369 adolescents and 210 adult parents belonging to the various religious groups in Trinidad was employed. Participants were randomly selected from various educational districts across Trinidad. Adolescent…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Intervention, Drinking, Adolescents
Hoffman, Shirl J. – 1975
By making virtue of ascesis or self-discipline in their sport, the athlete evangelists (the "athletae-Dei"), unwittingly rob sport of its fundamental theological significance. These proponents of an evangelical brand of protestant theology have shifted drastically from an anti-sport stance of a century ago to a position that not only…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Philosophy, Protestants
Bennett, Bruce L. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1979
The Rev. Thomas Beecher, a nineteenth-century Protestant minister in Elmira, New York, publicly advocated billiards, dancing, and card playing despite the outrage of his critics. (JMF)
Descriptors: Athletics, Clergy, History, Protestants

Bisin, Alberto; Topa, Giorgio; Verdier, Thierry – Journal of Political Economy, 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of a choice-theoretic model of cultural transmission. In particular, we use data from the General Social Survey to estimate the structural parameters of a model of marriage and child socialization along religious lines in the United States. The observed intermarriage and socialization rates are consistent…
Descriptors: Protestants, Marriage, Socialization, Jews
McGlynn, Claire; Bekerman, Zvi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
This paper considers issues related to integration in education, specifically those related to the integration of ethnic/religious populations in conflict. The case study we will use is the educating together of Catholic and Protestant children and Palestinian and Jewish children in two troubled societies, Northern Ireland and Israel, where…
Descriptors: Protestants, Jews, Catholics, School Desegregation
Woolever, Cynthia; Bruce, Deborah; Wulff, Keith; Smith-Williams, Ida – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
Worshipers in a national random sample of 309 conservative and mainline Protestant congregations in the USA completed surveys during religious services in 2001. An index was created to capture a dimension of congregational identity: worshipers' vision for their congregation's future and their commitment to it. Results show that worshipers in…
Descriptors: Protestants, Churches, Participation, Community Attitudes
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
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
Smagorinsky, Peter; Boggs, George L.; Jakubiak, Cori; Wilson, Amy A. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2010
This study combines data from three case studies of teachers moving from their university teacher education programs into their first jobs, with data collected through observations and interviews totaling six observation cycles over the 2 years of data collection. The curricula for working class students that the three teachers taught represent a…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Working Class, Teacher Education Programs, Time Management
Nieli, Russell K. – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, 2007
For more than fifty years, an enduring criticism of American higher education has been that it offers students a smorgasbord of courses and choices without coherence, interconnection, or relevance to the deeper purposes of life. How this fragmentation came about is the topic of this essay. American higher education went through a major…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, College Curriculum, Protestants