Determinants of College Teachers' Religious Beliefs and Participation
Data were collected from 307 teachers in two universities to examine the import of intellectual culture on religion. The relative effects of home culture, academic training, effect of academic discipline, and professional factors on religious beliefs and church commitment were tested. The "scho...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1976]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Année: 1976, Volume: 15, Numéro: 3, Pages: 221-235 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Dogmatism
B Social Sciences B professional training B Liberal arts education B Vocational education B Religion B Graduate schools B College faculty B Religiosity B Scientific Belief |
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| Résumé: | Data were collected from 307 teachers in two universities to examine the import of intellectual culture on religion. The relative effects of home culture, academic training, effect of academic discipline, and professional factors on religious beliefs and church commitment were tested. The "scholarly distance" theory of Lehman and Shriver, concerning differential impact of disciplines, was not supported. There was little evidence of a "religion of science" functionally equivalent to, and competing with, traditional religion. The strongest predictors of college teachers' religiosity were childhood religion and home culture. Religious commitments seem to have strong noncognitive sources which are little affected by intellectual training. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1386086 |