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Bass, Dorothy C. – Religious Education, 1990
Discusses the issue of the cultural authority of mainstream Protestantism in twentieth century in the United States. Posits the author's understanding of the historical issues involved in studying mainstream protestantism. (DB)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, North American Culture, Protestants, Religious Cultural Groups
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Tell, Carol – Educational Leadership, 1999
About 96% of youngsters in Northern Ireland are educated either in Catholic schools or in state-operated, predominantly Protestant schools. Since 1985, 40 integrated schools of all grade levels have sprung up throughout the country. At integrated schools, which maintain balanced ratios, students talk about their common history. (MLH)
Descriptors: Catholics, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Paterson, Frances R. A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1999
Challenges to public school materials, curricula, and instructional activities reflect perceptions that conservative Protestants face discrimination in U.S. public schools. Perceptions of religious disparagement trigger the establishment of alternative schools. Concerns over materials and activities that offend Protestants are found in Christian…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Protestants
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Beyerlein, Kraig – Social Forces, 2005
Using American religious traditions as measures of bonding and bridging social capital in communities, we empirically test how these different forms of social capital affect crime rates in 3,157 U.S. counties in 2000. Our results suggest that the bonding networks evangelical Protestants promote in communities explain why counties with a greater…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Crime, Religious Factors, Protestants
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Healy, Julie – Children & Society, 2006
Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added…
Descriptors: Working Class, Protestants, Females, Conflict
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Donnelly, Caitlin; Hughes, Joanne – Comparative Education, 2006
This paper compares the concept of mixed faith/cultural education in Northern Ireland and Israel. It is primarily concerned with the processes that these "integrated" schools adopt in their quest to improve relations between divided ethnic groups. Drawing on qualitative data collected in two mixed religion primary schools in each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Education, Research Methodology, Comparative Education
Hiemstra, John L.; Brink, Robert A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
Four typical arrangements for relating faith to schooling were developed in Canada during the nineteenth century. All resulted from compromises between the assimilating traditions of Christian Constantinianism and Enlightenment liberalism. These arrangements only reluctantly accommodate the religious diversity within society. Although scholars…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Public Schools, Religion
McClellan, B. Edward – 1992
Debates about how moral education ought to be provided have engaged many of the best minds in education and stirred public controversies throughout U.S. history. The vast array of European peoples who settled the American colonies brought a commitment to moral education and a variety of approaches to the task. While French and Spanish settlers…
Descriptors: Catholics, Christianity, Cultural Influences, Educational History
Carlson, A. Cheree – 1988
The Know-Nothing party of the 1850s was the first nativist party in American politics to gain importance and serves as an exemplar of how cultural nativism may be captured and turned toward political goals. The resurgence of nativist sentiment in the Know-Nothing era provides an excellent example of a rhetorical situation which seriously…
Descriptors: Catholics, Discourse Analysis, Immigrants, Patriotism
Faherty, William Barnaby – Hist Educ Quart, 1968
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Educational History
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Sutton, Marjorie Hunt – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Early Reading, Kindergarten, Learning, Longitudinal Studies
Farel, Anita M. – 1982
A survey of resources is provided for improving youth programs conducted by religious organizations. After a brief introductory chapter establishing the focus of the document, the second chapter offers an overview of adolescent physical, intellectual, moral, social, emotional, and religious development. In addition, the attitudes of young…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Catholics, Jews, Program Descriptions
Butler, Jerry P. – 1981
In 1965, transcripts were collected of 72 sermons on the issue of racial integration preached between 1955 and 1965. The sermons, all given by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Episcopal ministers in the southern United States, were examined to determine the position advocated by the minister. The sermons deemed segregationist were then…
Descriptors: Clergy, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
Winter, J. Alan; Mills, Edgar W. – 1968
Three urban training programs for clergy sponsor Research on Training for Metropolitan Ministry (RTMM), a project of the Ministry Studies Board of the National Council of Churches. RTMM has two main objectives: to increase understanding of the relationships among the attitudes, skills, and activities of clergymen, and to identify changes in these…
Descriptors: Activities, Administration, Attitude Measures, Attitudes
Howell, Gladys David – 1978
Differences in acculturation patterns among Protestant and Catholic (Orthodox) Syrians in a city in the southern United States are examined in this paper. Theoretical perspectives on religious/cultural group assimilation are reviewed and the methodology of the current study is outlined. The history of Protestantism in traditionally Catholic Syria…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Catholics, Cultural Differences
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