Used the Personality Style Inventory to assess personality styles of members of religious organizations. Hare Krishna and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship members were similar to the Depressive personality. The International Meditation Society and the Divine Light Mission were of the Catatonic personality style. Unitarians tended to be…

Following a brief sketch of the first fifty years of the Catholic Library Association, a glimpse of what could be expected from the association during the next fifty years is given. (NH)

This qualitative study probed into (a) the sense of fulfillment, (b) fears and anxieties, and (c) life trajectories of aged working professors recruited from one comprehensive university in the Philippines. Interestingly, findings of the study reveal that respondents were fulfilled and felt successful through the life outputs of their students;…

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…

Divided into three parts, this article first describes the impact that historical and sociological factors, especially the weakening of the Catholic subculture and the recent development of "emerging adulthood", have on Catholic colleges and universities. The second part is a discussion of the typical approaches--both strengths and weaknesses--of…

This dissertation explores the formal theologies and organizational readiness for change with a view towards adopting missional prototypes for theological education across a school's (system's) tradition, curriculum, and structure. The research assessed five theological schools in the United States through an exploratory, action-oriented,…

Post-9/11, many faith-based responders expressed the opinion that they were neither prepared nor trained to recognize the mental health needs of long-term trauma survivors. With funding through the Red Cross, an interdisciplinary trauma training program was developed to increase the capacity of the New York Southern Baptist Church groups to…

Reviews the history and purposes of International Youth Year (IYY). Lists participating Catholic organizations and the activities planned in observation of the year. (DMM)

This article is a continuation of The Slavonic and East European Review,'' v46 n106 p91-105 Jan 1968. (RS)

Relatively little attention has been paid in the professional literature to the cult phenomenon: what it is; how it attracts converts; what differentiates the vulnerable youth from the non-vulnerable; the effects of cult membership on the convert's family; and, particularly, the ways in which the family can be aided. (Author)

This newsletter focuses on the relationship between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and religious broadcasters. It traces the history of that relationship and discusses some of the pressures put on both. It includes a discussion of a recent avalanche of mail at the FCC supporting the church on the airways. It also summarizes some of…

A brief description of the ways in which this organization supports the arts is illustrated by activities at a recent national convocation. (RW)

Explores prevalent assumptions about what religious organizations are and do, how they fit into the independent or nonprofit sector, and what is reasonable to expect of or for them. Reviews basic facts about the nature, scope, operations, and support of religious organizations, examining their levels of independence. Focuses on the basic…

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…

Benedictine men and women brought with them centuries of experience as learners and teachers, and they shared their educative way of life as well as their schools with Native peoples and European immigrants. In turn, the land and peoples of the Great Plains have contributed to the evolution of Benedictine monastic life in North America.