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Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Barnes, L. Philip; Sion, Tania ap – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Northern Ireland is a province that remains deeply divided between Protestants and Catholics and maintains a segregated system of schools. Purpose: The research builds on a series of studies conducted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to monitor the attitude toward Christianity of males and females educated in Protestant and Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Females
Symon, Roger – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author reported on a community in Northern Ireland where religion is no longer a dirty word. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Catholics, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Protestants
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
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Johnson, Wayne G. – Religious Education, 1973
Relates the racist character of the Protestant church to the processes of acculturation and secularized forms of self identity, and outlines some implications for local churches' social action programs. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Beliefs, Christianity, Identification (Psychology)
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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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Leonard, Madeleine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2006
In segregated societies such as Northern Ireland, schools may become sites of risk rather than sites of learning. This is particularly likely to be the case in interface areas, which are demarcated by peace-lines and other symbolic boundaries. Drawing on maps and focus group discussions with teenagers from interface areas in North Belfast, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Risk, Focus Groups
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Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2008
This study draws together two research traditions: John Greer's pioneering research among pupils in Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and Leslie J. Francis's research concerning teenage religion and values in England and Wales. A sample of 1,585 13- to 15-year-old male pupils attending Catholic schools (n = 712) and Protestant…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, World Views
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Harford, Judith – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This article examines the network of women's colleges which emerged in Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to women's exclusion from the realm of the university and their desire to participate in higher education. These colleges, run largely along denominational lines, were situated in the major cities with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education, Middle Class
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Muldoon, Orla T.; McLaughlin, Katrina; Trew, Karen – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This paper examines the perceived influence of parents and family and the construction of national and religious identification amongst adolescents theoretically sampled from along the border between the Irish Republic and the Northern Ireland. Two hundred and sixty-one young people wrote essays on the meaning of their national identity and the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Nationalism, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology)
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Canales, Arthur David – Religious Education, 2006
This study addresses eight models for "doing" ecclesial adolescent ministry in the United States from both a Catholic and ecumenical perspective. The article offers youth ministers in the field with creative insights to further enhance their ministry with adolescents. The eight models represent an inclusive theological and pastoral…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescents, Catholics, Protestants
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Beneke, Chris – American Educational History Journal, 2006
From the colonial period to the present, no form of integration (defined as the opening of institutions and communal spaces to members of different groups) has produced more conflict than the integration of American schools. Struggles to open other locations within the social landscape--such as railroad cars, buses, restaurant counters, and water…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Social Integration, Religious Discrimination
Frezon, Peggy – Teaching Tolerance, 2006
Seamus Hodgkinson was raised in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles," a time of religious unrest and violence. Thousands of lives were lost as hatred between Catholic and Protestant groups escalated into intense battles. In 1957, Hodgkinson left Northern Ireland to accept a teaching position at the newly formed Doane Stuart School in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Catholics, Violence
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Petersen, Larry R. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986
Examined assertion that interfaith marriages have secularizing effect on family members. Assessed effects of respondent's and his/her parents' type of religious marriage on 11 measures of religious commitment. Catholics married to non-Catholics scored lower on attending mass and receiving communion than Catholics in homogamous marriages, but most…
Descriptors: Catholics, Family Life, Interfaith Relations, Marriage
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Harrison, Michael I.; Lazerwitz, Bernard – American Journal of Sociology, 1982
Analyzes data from a national survey of American Jews which show that denominational differences are substantial and more influential within this group than they have commonly been assumed to be. Findings suggest that recent research may have underestimated the potential importance of contemporary denominational differentiation for American…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Demography, Ethnicity, Jews
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Dowling, Kathryn – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1979
Reviews political events of the past decade in Northern Ireland, focusing particularly on national and international legal actions relating to civil and human rights. The roles of England and, more briefly, the United States are discussed. (GC)
Descriptors: Catholics, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries
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