This qualitative study explores the religious development and spiritual formation of African American gay men living with AIDS. In response to an in-depth interviewing approach, 10 men described their experiences of church participation. The participants' data reveal their religious initiation and participation as well as their need to extinguish…

Using the secularization theory and the Marxist notion of religion as masking class conscience one would expect the importance of religion and religious involvement today to wane and be limited to lower class members. To challenge this expectation, using a representative national telephone survey of 2004 youth (ages 11-18) and their parents, we…

Discusses the history and development of religious broadcasting. Suggests that the growth and structure of religious fare is the result of a good fit between the needs of the evangelical community and the dynamics of the television medium. (MS)

In determining the role of professional religious leadership on the college or university campus, it is first necessary to ascertain and accept the theory that there is and ought to be a symbiotic relationship between religion and higher education. The religious professional, then, herein referred to as the campus chaplain, has a responsibility to…

Author discusses the implication for religious education of the seeming lack of faith of today's young people. (CB)

This paper examines the rhetorical factors behind the success of Ernest Angley, non-denominational televangelist in Akron, Ohio. After describing the historical background of Angley and Grace Cathedral, the paper identifies some of the dominant beliefs that Angley espouses in his preaching. The paper then explains how these themes work in…

The California Campus Ministry Staffs have joined other members of the Committee on Higher Education and Public Policy (COHEPP) in formulating testimony to be presented in January of 1973 to the California State Legislature by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. This document presents testimony on four crucial…

Organizational religiosity is analyzed with data from a national survey of faith-based social service coalitions (N = 656). Twenty-one items related to religious practices within these organizations result in three distinct factors: service religiosity, staff religiosity and organizational religiosity scales. Self-defined faith-based coalitions…

This research examined two separate but related issues in Nigerian education. One, it attempted to assess the impact of Islamic and Western-type institutions upon the acquisition of religious knowledge and performance of religious duties among Hausa Muslim youth. Second, it addressed itself to measuring the religious devoutness of Muslims by…

The permanent order of deacon is proposed in the United Methodist Church. The following are suggestions for governing representative ministry so it can be structured to enliven and renew the life of United Methodism: (1) any view of diaconal and other representative ministries must be seen in relation to the general ministry of all Christians; (2)…

The religious instituations seem to be experiencing an exodus of young people from active participation, but those who leave are not rejecting life, they are simply looking for answers from different sources. Guidance counselors have opportunities to assist the young people who come to them in several ways. (Author)

In this article, the author discusses several issues and concerns on the case of religious groups who attempt to seek converts in school, hiding under the guise of assemblies and free talks on any topic that might be of interest to the school. Students are then lured to a pizza party after, where they are subjected to high-pressure evangelism and…

A study surveyed newspapers that print religious news to determine the kinds of coverage their religion journalists provide and to determine the type of audience for which they write. Mail surveys were completed by 141 daily newspapers with circulations ranging from under 10,000 to over 100,000. All but 13 respondents provided a working definition…

Attitudes of religious institutions toward art are discussed. It is suggested that art is regarded with suspicion because it involves the senses and sensibilities, and that Protestant-English based theology is afraid of sensuality because of its changing, rather than predictable, nature. (RW)

Perceptions and attitudes of University of New Mexico (UNM) students regarding the university, their church, and the campus ministry were surveyed in fall 1981 through telephone interviews. All of the 40 students were affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Most students (82.5 percent) were members of some church, and most attended one or…