Analysing religion and education in faith-based academies
By Elizabeth Green
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Dr. Beth Green
This paper asserts that the religious assumptions of Christian academies need to be fully examined in relation to any analysis of their cultural practices, impact or policy implications. It proposes that Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, cultural capital and symbolic power can be broadened out from their traditional use in accounting for social positioning in order to explore the interaction of religious faith and institutional culture. The emergent analytical framework outlined relies on series of theoretical tools drawn from Bourdieu whose social theory and concepts are already employed extensively in sociology of education research and studies of religion.
This is a peer reviewed Article
Article in British Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume #: 33
Issue #: 3
Pages: 391-407
Year: 2012