Drift from the Churches: Secondary School Pupils’ Attitudes toward Christianity

British Journal of Religious Education

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 78-86

  Francis, Leslie ^a  

^a Trinity College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948266761     PISSN: 01416200     EISSN: 17407931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141620890110204     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Cruickskank, M., Churrh and State in English Education 1870 to the Present Day, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1963.
2. Dent, H C. The Education Act 1944: provisions, possibilities and some problems (3rd edition), London, University of London Press, 1947.
3. Loukes, H., Teenage Religion, London SCM, 1961.
4. Goldman, R. J., Religious Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964.
5. Francis, L. J. Readiness for research in religion, Learning for Living 16, 109–114, 1977.
6. Thurstone, L. L., Attitudes can be measured American journal of Sociology, 33, 529–554, 1928
7. Likert, R. A., A technique for the measurement of attitudes, Archives of Psychology, 22, 5–55, 1932.
8. IGuttman, I. A basis for scaling qualitative data, American Sociological Review, 9, 139–150, 1944.
9. Osgood, C. E., Suci, G. J. and Tannenbaum, P. H., theMeasurement of Meaning, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1957.
10. Edwards, A. L., Techniques of Attitude Scale Construction, New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957.
11. Francis L. J., The child's attitude towards religion: a review of research, Educational Research, 21, 103-108 1979.
12. Francis, L. J. Measurement reapplied: research into the child's attitude towards religion, British Journal of Religious Education, 1, 45*51. 1978.
13. For a review of these studies see Francis T.J., Monitoring attitudes towards Christianity during childhood and adolescence, in PyydSiuen, M. (cd), Kasvatus ja Uskonto: Prreessori Kalevi Tamminen juhlckirja, Helsinki, Werner S&dcrstrBm OsakeyhtiS, pp. 230-247 1988.
14. Francis L. J., An enquiry into the concept ‘Readiness for Religion’, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1976; Attitude and longitude: a study in measurement, Character Potential, 8, 119–130, 1978.
15. Francis, L. J. and Stubbs, M. T., Measuring attitudes towards Christianity: from childhood to adulthood, Personality and Individual Differences, 8, 741–743, 1987.
16. Francis L. J., Christianity and the child today, Occasional Papers: Farmington Institute for Christian Studies, 6, 1980.
17. Francis L. J., Monitoring changing attitudes towards Christianity among secondary school pupils between 1974 and 1986 British Journal of Educational Psychology, in Press 1989.
18. II Argyle M. and Beit-Hallihmi B., The Social Psychology of Religion, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
19. C. Mark, T., A study of religious attitudes, religious behaviour and religious cognition, Educational Studies, 8, 209-216, 1982; Francis, L. J., The decline in attitudes towards religion among 8–15 year olds, Educational Ssidies, 13, 125–134, 1987.
20. see 11 above.
21. Francis, L. J., Youth in Transit, Aldershot, Gower, 1932.
22. Jfrancis, L. J., Experience of Adulthood, Aldershot, Gower, 1982.
23. JlFrancis, L. J., Teenagers and the Church, London, Collins Liturgical Publications, 1984.
24. Brown. L. B., The Psychology of Religious Belief London, Academic Press, 1987.
25. Wright, D. and Cox, E., Changes in attitudes towards religious education and the Bible among sixth form boys and girls, British journal of Educational Psychology, 41,328-331, 1971; Wright, D. and Cox, E., Changes in moral belief among sixth form boys and girls over a seven year period in relation to religious belief, age and sex differences, British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 10 332–341, 1971; Greer, J. E., The persistence of religion: a study of adolescents in Northern Ireland, Character Potential, 9, 139–149, 1980; Turner, E. G., Turner, I. F. and Reid, A., Religious attitudes in two types of urban secondary school: a decade of change, Irish journal of Education, 14, 43–52, 1980.