Advance Magazine Fall 2011

Web Resource Recent Scholarship Related to Religion and Denominational Identity in Higher Education: A Reading List

Compiled by Perry Glanzer, Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, Baylor University

Astin, A.W., Astin, H.S., & Lindholm, J. (2011).  Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Hill, J.P. (2009). Higher education as moral community: Institutional influences on religious participation during college. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (3):515-34.

Mayrl, D. & Oeur, F. (2009). Religion and higher education: Current knowledge and directions for future research. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (2): 260-75.

Gonyea, R.M. & Kuh, G.D. (2006). Independent colleges and student engagement: Do religious affiliation and institutional type matter? Bloomington, IN: Center for Postsecondary Research.

Small, J.L. & Bowman, N.A. (2011). Religious commitment, skepticism, and struggle among U.S. college students: The impact of majority/minority religious affiliation and institutional type. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50 (1): 154-74.