Getting Rid of “Church-Related” Colleges and Universities: Applying a New Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide to Protestant Higher Education
Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Alth...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Religious education
Year: 2023, Volume: 118, Issue: 2, Pages: 146-172 |
| Further subjects: | B
Institutional identity
B Christian Higher Education B faith-based higher education B church-related higher education |
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| Summary: | Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Although scholars have advanced sophisticated typologies of Protestant and Catholic institutions, we propose that we still need a new means of empirical analysis to determine the degree to which the faith identity of an institution influences important administrative, curricular, and co-curricular decisions. We then apply our Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide (OFIG) to Protestant institutions in the United States to demonstrate the helpfulness of its application. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2023.2184962 |
