Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education: A New Empirical Guide for Evaluating the Influence of Catholic Identity
Although scholars have often described faith-based universities in America as “church-related,” we argue this classification tells us virtually nothing about how the Catholic identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of Catholic institutions. Although Morey and Piderit (2006...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-67 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Catholic university
/ Religious identity
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RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church RF Christian education; catechetics |
Further subjects: | B
Church-related higher education
B Institutional identity B faith-based higher education B Catholic higher education |
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Summary: | Although scholars have often described faith-based universities in America as “church-related,” we argue this classification tells us virtually nothing about how the Catholic identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of Catholic institutions. Although Morey and Piderit (2006, Catholic higher education: A culture in crisis) created a more sophisticated four-part typology of Catholic institutions, we find that students, parents, administrators, and scholars, particularly scholars interested in institutional secularization, need a better means of empirical analysis to determine the degree to which the Catholic identity of an institution influences key administrative decisions of the university. Thus, we propose a method of content analysis that can quantify how the Catholic identity shapes key administrative, curricular, and cocurricular decisions and thereby places Catholic institutions upon a continuum. We then apply our new Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide (OFIG) to Catholic institutions in the United States to demonstrate the helpfulness of its application. Replication: The data needed to duplicate and replicate the findings in the paper will be made available immediately following publication. |
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ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12815 |