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ERIC Number: EJ1469144
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1942-2539
EISSN: EISSN-1942-2547
Available Date: 0000-00-00
The Contours of Religion through the Narrated Photographs of Philippine Catholic University Students
International Studies in Catholic Education, v17 n1 p21-36 2025
The study claims that religion is tangibly present at a Catholic university in the Philippines. Examining the participants' views of religion yielded the following contours: a. Well-being; b. Connections; c. Service-Oriented; d. Dispositions; e. Higher Value; f. Metaphysical; and g. Encompassing. These contours are consistent with contemporary theories of religion on how people worldwide create and re-create their sacred worlds and often utilise physical landscapes where they are located as material resources. The use of phenomenology in the present study emphasises religion's embeddedness in physical space yet simultaneously encompasses the spiritual or metaphysical areas and areas in-between, where young people manifest religion in the interconnections and interstices and crevices of spaces, real or imagined. The research affirms Graham Rossiter's view that Catholic educators must be able to draw out young peoples' contemporary meanings of religion and spirituality to draw out a possibility of Catholic universities becoming transformative spaces for students to express their religious and spiritual views.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Philippines
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: 1Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines