Religion, spirituality & spiritual development of undergraduate students

<p>Spirituality is a topic of growing interest for college students and scholars and yet personal accounts of spiritual development among college students remains limited. This study investigated the spiritual development of seven traditional-aged, University of the Pacific students in their senior year of course study. Interviews were conducted using an interview guide. Participants were requested through chain sampling techniques. Interviews were used to gain knowledge about the experiences students have that contribute to the ways in which they define spirituality and how those experiences affected them personally. Responses from interviews of Pacific students will be compared to Fowler's Stages of Faith and the work of Parks, Chickering and other's conclusions made regarding how students and people across generations and cultures develop a sense of meaning and purpose.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Wilson, Charlene E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sandy Mahoney

• College students Religious life
• Spiritual formation
• College environment
• Education
• Religion
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/632

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-1631