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Cheryl Minor; Hannah Sutton-Adams; Heather Ingersoll – Religious Education, 2023
This study explored the spiritual needs of Christian families by surveying and holding focus groups with parents and congregational leaders. We discovered a disconnect between what congregational leaders think is happening with families and the lived experience of families. Congregational leaders often perceive the lack of church engagement from…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Christianity, Parents, Religious Factors
Vrame, Anton C. – Religious Education, 2023
Describing the work of a director of the department of religious education of a national church, this article attempts to show how the work is multi-faceted and intense, meeting the many needs of parishes and their religious education programs. The essay also offers a reflection on the lessons learned from nearly fifteen years in this position.
Descriptors: Religious Education, Churches, Administrators, Administrator Responsibility
Stahl, Wanda J. – Religious Education, 2022
A growing number of new faith communities in North America are emerging as part of the Wild Church Network. These outdoor church expressions seek to re-acquaint, re-cover, and re-member their faith communities as loving participants of the larger community of Creation. This paper explores theological foundations and spiritual practices grounding…
Descriptors: Churches, Networks, Spiritual Development, Religious Factors
Rich, Cynthia Holder; Ward Holder, R.; Scheopner Torres, Aubrey – Religious Education, 2022
How do race and lived experiences of this construct impact student theological understandings? We embarked on a joint pedagogical venture spanning two continents about race and theology with groups of students whose encounters with race and its impacts on theology were markedly different--including students whose lives and education have been…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Teaching Methods, Race, Racism
Wowor, Jeniffer Fresy Porielly – Religious Education, 2022
As an artistic activity, weaving traditions have been passed down by women weavers from generation to generation in Sumba, Indonesia. Women can express their resistance to an oppressive situation through aesthetic engagement using handwoven textile motifs. There are also motifs related to woman's resistance to Dutch colonialization in the past.…
Descriptors: Art, Handicrafts, Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Maintenance
Christiani, Tabita Kartika – Religious Education, 2022
This paper is based on a quantitative research study of Christian adolescents in junior and senior high schools, in 12 Protestant churches in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, concerning their perceptions about LGBTQ+ sexualities. Using a "normalcy" perspective from disability studies, the study finds heterosexuality is normative; other sexual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Junior High School Students, High School Students
Rackley, Eric D. – Religious Education, 2021
This two-year ethnographic study examines the motivations for religious knowledge development, or religious literacy, embedded in a Latter-day Saint congregation. Qualitative analyses of observations and 29 interviews with nine youth yielded three characteristics of religious environments that motivated youth for religious literacy. When youth…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Religious Education, Literacy, Knowledge Level
de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Anne-Marije; de Kock, Jos; Visser-Vogel, Elsbeth; Bakker, Cok; Barnard, Marcel – Religious Education, 2021
Religious identity development is highly influenced by contexts. This influence is even more powerful for young people who grew up in strict religious contexts because of the prominence of orthodox beliefs and practices in everyday life. This article presents which contextual factors were influential on the religious identity development of 18…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Religious Factors, Child Rearing
Ott, Kate – Religious Education, 2021
Holistic sexuality education is needed in churches and seminaries to promote sexual inclusion and flourishing as well as combat sexual violence and trauma. The scholarly and pedagogical resources exist to do this work; we need an ethical commitment to integrate them across the curriculum.
Descriptors: Christianity, Sex Education, Churches, Theological Education
Peck-McClain, Emily A. – Religious Education, 2021
United Methodist Church polity bars "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from ordination and prohibits same-sex wedding celebrations in their churches or by their clergy. Recently, the consequences for disobeying church polity have increased in severity and the denomination is expected to split. This paper profiles three churches who…
Descriptors: Protestants, Churches, Religious Education, Homosexuality
Han, Garam – Religious Education, 2021
Through the story of Korean Bible Women and the South Korean #MeToo movement today, this paper explores how Korean women's innate creativity and imagination have challenged the patriarchal and hierarchical standpoints of the Korean Protestant church and society. Furthermore, this paper invites the Korean Protestant Church to confront the reality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Churches, Females
Jeon, Eunjin – Religious Education, 2021
Clergy sexual abuse is happening in faith communities. Particularly, Korean immigrant churches, though playing crucial roles in empowering immigrants' agency and providing support networks, often fail to support survivors because of both a dysfunction of culture and a fragmented educational ministry. Along with the #ChurchToo movement, young women…
Descriptors: Clergy, Sexual Abuse, Social Media, Korean Americans
Mosby, Karen E. – Religious Education, 2020
Historically, Blacks have out of necessity prioritized survival in educating their younger generations for existence in the racially hostile and divided context of the U.S. This education and religious education has occurred formally and informally in homes, schools, community organizations, and in congregations. This paper examines three aspects…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teaching Methods, African Americans, African American Education
Soltesova, Viktoria; Pleva, Matus – Religious Education, 2020
The primary purpose of this research is the question of religiosity among secondary school-age Roma children attending Religious Education (RE) programs in Evangelical churches in Slovakia. This study adopted the questionnaire "Brief Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality" used by the Fetzer Institute in a General…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Religious Education, Churches, Comparative Analysis
Csinos, David M. – Religious Education, 2020
In this racially-charged time, religious educators are engaging in research that transgresses traditional (white) norms. Such research can not only dismantle white normativity through the subjects investigated; it can also be practiced in ways that are transgressive. This article uses a particular experience of ethnographic theological research in…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Cultural Context, Whites