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Religious experience among Catholic and Protestant sixth-form students in Northern Ireland : looking for signs of the presence of God
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ap Siôn, Tania (2017) Religious experience among Catholic and Protestant sixth-form students in Northern Ireland : looking for signs of the presence of God. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 20 (4). pp. 330-347. doi:10.1080/13674676.2017.1279131 ISSN 1367-4676 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2017.1279131
Abstract
John Greer conducted major surveys of sixth-form religion in Protestant schools in Northern Ireland in 1968, 1978, and 1988. John Greer’s colleagues continued that research tradition in Northern Ireland in 1998 and in 2010, and extended the survey to include sixth-form students in Catholic schools. Greer’s survey routinely included a question on religious experience, drawing on the approach of Alister Hardy and the Religious Experience Research Unit. The 2010 survey provided the data from around 1,500 sixth-form students analysed in the present paper. These new data offer two main points of contrast, between students in Catholic and in Protestant schools, and between students in 1998 and 2010. The analysis preserves Greer’s historic descriptive categories of religious experience styled: help and guidance, exams, God’s presence, answered prayer, death, sickness, conversion, miscellaneous, and difficulty in describing.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | College students -- Religion -- Attitudes -- Northern Ireland -- 21st century, Experience (Religion) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mental Health, Religion and Culture | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1367-4676 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 22 March 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 330-347 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13674676.2017.1279131 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2018 | ||||||||
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