Attitudes towards faith-based schooling amongst Roman Catholics in Britain

Separate Catholic schooling in Britain has historically been a key mechanism for the religious socialisation of children within the denomination and for the transmission of communal identity and heritage. Catholic schools currently comprise around a tenth of all state schools in England and nearly a...

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Published in:British journal of religious education
Main Author: Clements, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2018]
In: British journal of religious education
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / Catholic / Employment / Denominational school / Public funding
RelBib Classification:AH Religious education
CG Christianity and Politics
KBF British Isles
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RF Christian education; catechetics
Further subjects:B Empirical Analysis
B faith schools
B education policy
B Attitudes
B Britain
B Catholics
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Summary:Separate Catholic schooling in Britain has historically been a key mechanism for the religious socialisation of children within the denomination and for the transmission of communal identity and heritage. Catholic schools currently comprise around a tenth of all state schools in England and nearly all ‘denominational' schools in Scotland. This study analyses Catholics' attitudes towards publicly funded faith schools for different religious groups using a nationally representative survey of adult Catholics in Britain. It assesses the impact of social characteristics, religious behaving and believing, and moral attitudes. Catholics' religious orthodoxy is consistently related to support for state-funding of faith schools, irrespective of the religious group in question, providing some support for the ‘solidarity of the religious' perspective. The effects for moral attitudes are less consistent, with socially conservative views associated with support for faith schools for Catholics and Anglicans, but associated with opposition to faith schools in general and for non-Christian religions.
ISSN:0141-6200
Contains:Enthalten in: British journal of religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/01416200.2015.1128393