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Looking for signs of the presence of God in Northern Ireland : religious experience among Catholic and Protestant sixth-form pupils
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ap Siôn, Tania (2006) Looking for signs of the presence of God in Northern Ireland : religious experience among Catholic and Protestant sixth-form pupils. Archive for the Psychology of Religion / Archiv für Religionspychologie , 28 (1). pp. 349-370. doi:10.1163/008467206777832490 ISSN 0084-6724.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/008467206777832490
Abstract
A sample of 2,359 sixth-form pupils (between the ages of 16 and 18 years) in Northern Ireland (1,093 attending seven Protestant schools and 1,266 attending nine Catholic schools) responded in 1998 to Greer's classic question 'Have you ever had an experience of God, for example, his presence or his help or anything else?' Religious experience was reported by 29% of Protestant males, 29% of Catholic males, 39% of Protestant females and 38% of Catholic females. Compared with earlier data these figures reveal a particularly marked decline in reported religious experience among Catholic females (64% in 1981, 56% in 1984, 61% in 1992 and 38% in 1998). The content of the reported religious experience is analysed and illustrated within nine descriptive categories characterised as: help and guidance, exams, God's presence, answered prayer, death, sickness, conversion, difficulty in describing, and miscellaneous.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Experience (Religion), Experience (Religion) in children | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Archive for the Psychology of Religion / Archiv für Religionspychologie | ||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||
| ISSN: | 0084-6724 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2006 | ||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 22 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 349-370 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/008467206777832490 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 December 2015 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 |
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