Religion, Education, and Adolescence: International and Empirical Perspectives (University of Wales - Religion, Education, and Culture)

285 Pages·2005·0.86 MB·English

by  L. J. Francis

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Religion,Education and Adolescence
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Religion,Education and Culture
Series Editors:
William K.Kay (University of Wales,Bangor,UK),Leslie
J.Francis (University of Wales,Bangor,UK) and Jeff Astley
(University of Durham,UK)
This series addresses issues raised by religion and education
within contemporary culture. It is intended to be of benefit to
those involved in professional training as ministers of religion,
teachers,counsellors,psychologists,social workers and health pro-
fessionals while also contributing to the theoretical development
of the academic fields from which this training is drawn.
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Religion, Education and
Adolescence
International Empirical Perspectives
Edited by
LESLIE J.FRANCIS,MANDY ROBBINS andJEFF ASTLEY
on behalf of The International Seminar on
Religious Education and Values (ISREV)
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
CARDIFF
2005
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© The Contributors,2005
All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval
system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,
photocopying,recording or otherwise,without clearance from the University of
Wales Press,10 Columbus Walk,Brigantine Place,Cardiff,CF10 4UP.
www.wales.ac.uk/press
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-7083-1957-2
The rights of the Contributors to be identified separately as authors of
this work have been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77
and 79 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The editors and publishers wish to acknowledge the financial assistance
received from the Welsh National Centre for Religious Education.
Printed in Great Britain by Cambridge Printing,Cambridge
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Contents
The contributors vii
Preface ix
Foreword xi
JOHN M.HULL
Introduction 1
LESLIE J.FRANCIS
I Religion and Values Survey
1. Prayer,personality and purpose in life among
churchgoing and non-churchgoing adolescents 15
LESLIE J.FRANCIS
2. The science and religion interface within young
people’s attitudes and beliefs 39
JEFF ASTLEY
3. The influence of Anglican secondary schools on
personal,moral and religious values 55
DAVID W.LANKSHEAR
4. The identity of young Anglicans:the feminization
of the Anglican Church 70
ANNA HALSALL
5. Attitude to smoking among female adolescents:is
religion a significant but neglected factor? 94
MANDY ROBBINS
6. Religious experience and its implications for
religious education 107
WILLIAM K.KAY
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vi Religion,Education and Adolescence
II Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives
7. Research on lifestyle,spirituality and religious
orientation of adolescents in Germany 131
HEINZ STREIB
8. Exploring the religious life-world and attitude toward
Islam among British Muslim adolescents 164
ABDULLAH SAHIN
9. Change in religious behaviour and beliefs among
Israeli religious high-school seniors,1990–1999 185
YISRAEL RICH and AVRAHAM LESLAU
10. Models of inter-religious learning:an empirical
study in Germany 204
HANS-GEORG ZIEBERTZ
11. Faith in God and Christian religious practice
among adolescents in Norway 222
ERLING BIRKEDAL
12. Adolescent attitudes to ‘the other’:citizenship
and religious education in England 235
JUDITH EVERINGTON
Name index 261
Subject index 267
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The contributors
The Revd Professor Jeff Astley is Director of the North of
England Institute for Christian Education and Honorary
Professional Fellow in PracticalTheology and Christian Education,
University of Durham,England.
Dr Erling Birkedal is Director of the Institute for Church
Education,Oslo,Norway.
Dr Judith Everingtonis Senior Lecturer in Religious Education
in the Institute of Education,University of Warwick,England.
The Revd Professor Leslie J. Francis is Director of the Welsh
National Centre for Religious Education and Professor of Practical
Theology,University ofWales,Bangor,Wales.
Anna Halsall is Research Officer for the St Christopher’s
Educational Trust Project at the Welsh National Centre for Religious
Education,University of Wales,Bangor,Wales.
Professor John M. Hull is Emeritus Professor of Religious
Education,University of Birmingham,England.
The Revd Dr William K. Kay is Senior Lecturer in Religious
and Theological Education,King’s College,London,England.
Dr David W. Lankshear is Deputy Director of the National
Society of the Church of England.
Professor Avraham Leslau is at the School of Education,Bar-
Ilan University,Israel.
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Professor Yisrael Rich is at the School of Education, Bar-Ilan
University,Israel.
Dr Mandy Robbinsis Teaching and Research Fellow,Centre for
Ministry Studies,University of Wales,Bangor,Wales.
Dr Abdullah Sahin is Lecturer in Islamic Education in the
School of Education,University of Birmingham,England.
Professor Heinz Streibis Professor for Religious Education and
Ecumenical Theology,University of Bielefeld,Germany.
Professor Hans-Georg Ziebertz is Professor in Practical
Theology,University of Würzburg,Germany.
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Preface
Since its inception in 1978,the International Seminar on Religious
Education and Values has become the key meeting-place for many
researchers in religious education across the world.The seminar
which met in Norway in 2002 took as its theme religion,education
and adolescence.We are pleased in this book to be able to make
some of the formative contributions to the seminar available to a
wider audience.
In preparing this manuscript for publication,we are grateful to
the individual authors for developing these papers and for work-
ing with us to produce a coherence of presentation and style,and
to our colleagues, Diane Drayson and Susan Thomas, who have
worked with us on the text.
This volume also represents the well-established collaboration
that exists between the Welsh National Centre for Religious Education
and the North of England Institute for Christian Education, two
Church-related foundations committed to research and develop-
ment in religious education in schools and churches.
Leslie J.Francis
Mandy Robbins
Jeff Astley