Perry L Glanzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 292007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Perry L Glanzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Perry L |
| FAMILY NAME | Glanzer |
| SIGNATURE | GLANZER P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3649-2516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Examining the Temporal Associations Between Religious Motivations and Meaning in Life
The codevelopment of contingent self-worth and religious engagement in U.S. college students
Comparing general gratitude and gratitude to God and their associations with well-being over time
Religious/spiritual struggles, patience, and anxiety
Attachment to mother, father, and God
College student volunteering as a channel toward the virtue of generosity in higher education
Attachment to God and Contingencies of Self-Worth
How American college students identify and resolve their moral challenges
In moral education, scholars tend to focus on resolving moral dilemmas versus identifying and overcoming moral challenges. Yet, a major part of acquiring moral expertise also involves learning how to identify and overcome moral challenges—a less explored topic. Thus, our qualitative study examined the extent to which a nationally drawn sample of 179 undergraduates at eight different institutions could identify a moral challenge and the solutions …
Faith-informed character
There is a dearth of research that examines how university students navigate moral challenges and the role religion might play in such circumstances. As such, this qualitative content analysis at a Christian university in the Southwestern United States examined students’ descriptions of moral challenges they have encountered, how they resolved their challenges, the resources they found helpful, and the role faith played in determining how to reso…
Belonging and Social Class at a Religious University
Sense of belonging is important in higher education. Unfortunately, sense of belonging is not evenly experienced by all college students. Using a theoretical framework based on the Culturally Engaging Campus Environment model, we examine the influence of social class and discussions of religion/spirituality (in class, with faculty, and with peers) on students’ sense of belonging at a religious university in the U.S. South. Regression analyses in …
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit
Not as good as I would like to be
Self-sacrifice for others’ flourishing
Pursuing personal goals
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis
OBJECTIVE: Text analysis is a form of psychological assessment that involves converting qualitative information (text) into quantitative data. We tested whether automated text analysis using Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) can match the "gold standard" of manual text analysis, even when assessing a highly nuanced construct like spirituality. METHOD: In Study 1, N = 2199 US undergraduates wrote about their goals (N = 6597 texts) and com…
Race, Religion, and Belonging at a Christian University
Race plays a significant role in shaping sense of belonging in higher education. However, little research has analyzed religion and belonging at universities. In this study, we test four hypotheses about race, religion, and belonging with survey data from a Christian university in the South. For first-year students, Asians express less belonging than Whites, but no other differences by race or religion appear. Among seniors, Black, Asian, and non…
A person-centered approach to the dark triad traits and religiousness
The challenge of finding noncontingent, universal worth for elite U.S. college students
Most sources from which college students derive their sense of worth are contingent and, therefore, often unstable, especially for students in high-performance educational contexts. Thus, this qualitative study sought to identify the extent to which 142 undergraduate students from eight elite colleges or universities derived their worth from noncontingent, universal sources and the degree to which students had internalized these sources. Only 40 …
American college students’ understandings of the good life
‘What is the good life?’ Few empirical studies explore how American college students answer this important question. In this grounded theory study, we analysed the responses of 276 American college students in two phases. In the first phase, we examined responses from 109 students at 10 different universities. In the second phase, we added interviews with an additional 167 students at one of the universities. Based on our coding, we found student…
Attachment to God, Contingent Self-Worth, and Mental Health Outcomes in U.S. Collegiate Athletes
Trait Courage, Attachment to God, and Mental Well-Being Among U.S. Collegiate Athletes
Gratitude to God and mental well-being in U.S. collegiate athletes
This study examines the potential salubrious role of religious gratitude as a protective factor for collegiate student-athlete mental health and the possible mediating role of perceived indebtedness to God and meaning in life. We draw on a sample of student-athletes from the United States (N = 415) who compete in NCAA Division 1 and 3 athletics. Our results suggest gratitude to God is associated with lower depressive and anxiety symptoms and less…
Sources of Self-Worth in U.S. College Students
In light of the mental health crisis facing American college students, it has become vital to determine how students derive their self-worth. This endeavor is particularly important because research has found that internal sources of worth correlate with better mental health than self-worth derived from externally contingent sources. Although past work has identified various sources, it did not set forth a comprehensive theory of college student …
Increased Bible Reading, Religious Beliefs, and Prosociality During College
Religious self-socialization theory posits that chosen exposure to religion can impact future attitudes and behaviors via the internalization of religious messages, but emerging adults in the United States tend to decrease their participation in religious activities during college. Therefore, unique outcomes may arise for the few that maintain or increase religious activity. The present longitudinal study examines whether and how an increase in B…
Changes in Politics and Religiosity Among Students at a Protestant University
College is a setting and time of profound change in the lives of emerging adults. This change can include shifts in identity related to politics and religion. Given widespread attention to the alignment of religious people with conservative politics and less religious people with liberal politics (i.e., the 'God Gap'), we ask: do college students who become politically liberal lose their religion in the process? Using longitudinal panel data, thi…
Postsoviet Moral Education in Russia's State Schools
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPerry L Glanzer*Indicates that the newspaper articles cited have been translated by Paul Steeves and can be found at his Stetson University website on Russian Religious News: http://www.stetson.edu/∼psteeves/relnews
Searching for the Soul of English Universities
Although church-related universities in England gradually became more secular throughout the twentieth century, a group of nine teacher education colleges with church foundations have recently developed into full fledged universities. This article draws upon documentary and site-based research to evaluate the relevance of the Christian identity for these institutions in light of recent scholarship on the subject. Keywords: church foundation unive…
Changes in Politics and Religiosity Among Students at a Protestant University
College is a setting and time of profound change in the lives of emerging adults. This change can include shifts in identity related to politics and religion. Given widespread attention to the alignment of religious people with conservative politics and less religious people with liberal politics (i.e., the 'God Gap'), we ask: do college students who become politically liberal lose their religion in the process? Using longitudinal panel data, thi…
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education
Although scholars have often described faith-based universities in America as 'church-related,' we argue this classification tells us virtually nothing about how the Catholic identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of Catholic institutions. Although Morey and Piderit (2006, Catholic higher education: A culture in crisis) created a more sophisticated four-part typology of Catholic institutions, we find that students, par…
Religion and Education in Post-Communist Russia
Perry L. Glanzer, Konstantin Petrenko; Religion and Education in Post-Communist Russia: Russia's Evolving Church-State Relations, Journal of Church and Sta
Increased Bible Reading, Religious Beliefs, and Prosociality During College
Religious self-socialization theory posits that chosen exposure to religion can impact future attitudes and behaviors via the internalization of religious messages, but emerging adults in the United States tend to decrease their participation in religious activities during college. Therefore, unique outcomes may arise for the few that maintain or increase religious activity. The present longitudinal study examines whether and how an increase in B…
Teaching Christian Ethics in Russian Public Schools
Journal Article Teaching Christian Ethics in Russian Public Schools: The Testing of Russia's Church-State Boundaries Get access Perry Glanzer Perry Glanzer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 41, Issue 2, Spring 1999, Pages 285–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/41.2.285 Published: 01 March 1999
Teaching Christian Ethics in Russian Public Schools
Journal Article Teaching Christian Ethics in Russian Public Schools: The Testing of Russia's Church-State Boundaries Get access Perry Glanzer Perry Glanzer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 41, Issue 2, Spring 1999, Pages 285–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/41.2.285 Published: 01 March 1999
Choice of Schools in Six Nations
Did the moral education establishment kill character? An autopsy of the death of character
This essay examines James Davison Hunter's claim that the moral education establishment is responsible for the death of character. I contend that although Hunter's rhetoric about the "death of character" is distracting and his claims against the moral education establishment are overstated, moral educators must grapple with his finding that effective moral education requires a coherent moral culture with a clear conception of public and private g…
Postsoviet Moral Education in Russia's State Schools
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPerry L Glanzer*Indicates that the newspaper articles cited have been translated by Paul Steeves and can be found at his Stetson University website on Russian Religious News: http://www.stetson.edu/∼psteeves/relnews
God on Stage? Religious Themes in Public Educational Theatre
Allen Reeves Ware, Perry L. Glanzer; God on Stage? Religious Themes in Public Educational Theatre, Journal of Church and State, Volume 47, Issue 3, 1 July
Religion and Education in Post-Communist Russia
Perry L. Glanzer, Konstantin Petrenko; Religion and Education in Post-Communist Russia: Russia's Evolving Church-State Relations, Journal of Church and Sta
Addressing the moral quandary of contemporary universities
Whereas a consensus used to exist that universities had the responsibility to make students more fully human, today one finds scholars claiming that universities should form only certain aspects of a student’s identity or should draw primarily from only certain aspects. In other words, scholars support the claim that the university should or should not undertake a certain kind of moral education by appealing to a particular aspect of human or ins…
Searching for the Soul of English Universities
Although church-related universities in England gradually became more secular throughout the twentieth century, a group of nine teacher education colleges with church foundations have recently developed into full fledged universities. This article draws upon documentary and site-based research to evaluate the relevance of the Christian identity for these institutions in light of recent scholarship on the subject. Keywords: church foundation unive…
The Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States, 2 vols
A review of the most important cases regarding the religion clauses of the First Amendment will reveal that issues related to education take up the greatest percentage. In light of this importance, one can understand why James Carper, professor of social foundations at the University of South Carolina, and Thomas Hunt, professor of teacher education at the University of Dayton, have assembled one of Praeger Press's handbooks on this subject. The …
Taking Every Thought Captive
The Role of the State in the Secularization of Christian Higher Education
Journal Article The Role of the State in the Secularization of Christian Higher Education: A Study of Postcommunist Europe Get access Perry L. Glanzer Perry L. Glanzer [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 53, Issue 2, Spring 2011, Pages 161–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq118 Published: 06 January 2011
Engaging the Culture, Changing the World
In this volume, Philip Eaton, president of Seattle Pacific University, adds to the growing literature addressing Christian higher education. Eaton's book proves original in that he spends little time conversing with this literature. Instead, he attempts to set forth his own unique vision regarding the role of a Christian university in a post-Christian culture. This role, he believes, is important because the contemporary secular university proves…
Why most American universities have given up on human purpose and meaning
Recent scholarship claims that American colleges and universities give less and less attention to the meaning of life. In this article we critically evaluate the historical arguments for this claim, focusing primarily on the account given by Anthony Kronman. We argue that Kronman’s history proves particularly problematic if one wants to understand the reasons for American higher education’s treatment of matters of meaning and purpose. His histori…
Saving Democratic Education from Itself
We need homeschooling to save education in a liberal democracy from taking a religious form—what I call Democratic Education. Democratic Education emerges when the democratic identity and narrative become elevated to the highest priority when thinking about educating human beings. This elevation becomes particularly dangerous when other nonpolitical ends and aspects of our humanity are ignored, downplayed, or, worse, delegitimized. This article a…
Changing Souls
Does higher education currently provide fertile soil for emerging adults’ spiritual growth or does it create a thorny environment that starves it? This chapter explores the answer to this question in four areas: (1) the impact of higher education on student religious belief and practice; (2) religion in the co-curricular dimension of secular campuses; (3) religion in the curricular dimension of secular institutions; and (4) the status of religiou…
The implications of religious identity for teaching ethics
Some debate exists about the degree to which one should merge one’s identities, particularly those with important normative content, with one’s teaching practices. This issue becomes particularly important for those with a religious identity who purposefully merge their identity with classroom practices. This article examines the qualitative answers of 328 Christian professors to a question addressing how they merge their Christian theological tr…
The association between religion and self-reported academic honesty among college students
Current research yields inconsistent findings about the association between religious variables and academic cheating among college students. In this study, we investigated possible reasons for this disagreement by examining whether, and to what extent, three particular religious variables: religious identity, affirmation of importance and religious services attendance, are associated with academic honesty among college students. Specifically, we…
Emerging Adults' Conceptions of Purpose and the Good Life
To understand the purpose acquisition of young emerging adults (18-23), scholars claim we need to learn the types of purposes to which they are committing and how they conceptualize purpose differently from other related concepts such as future goals and the good life. To address these issues, we examined interviews with 229 young emerging adults about their life purpose, future goals, and conceptions of the good life. Although the interviewees' …
Opening the Red Door
The rise and fall of America’s conscience
Scholarship about the concept of the conscience has languished in the past half century, although some recent works have sought to revive it. One recent attempt proposes that the key to reviving the concept is its secularisation, since this secularisation would make it less dogmatic and more useful to a wider audience. In this paper, I argue that this process already occurred in American collegiate moral education. Yet, when the moral conscience …
Getting Rid of “Church-Related” Colleges and Universities
Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Although scholars have advanced sophisticated typologies of Protestant and Catholic institutions, we propose that we still need a new means of empirical a…
Religiosity Moderates Goal Courage and Self-Worth in Collegiate Christian Athletes
Research shows that the effects of athletics on virtue development are mixed. Religion provides people with a meaning-making system, community, and practices that can promote the cultivation of virtues and possibly enhance the impact of athletics on virtue development. Yet, little empirical research has assessed moral outcomes when religion and sport interact. The present study examines intrinsic religiosity as a moderator of the effect of athlet…
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education
Although scholars have often described faith-based universities in America as 'church-related,' we argue this classification tells us virtually nothing about how the Catholic identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of Catholic institutions. Although Morey and Piderit (2006, Catholic higher education: A culture in crisis) created a more sophisticated four-part typology of Catholic institutions, we find that students, par…
Race, Religion, and Belonging at a Christian University
Race plays a significant role in shaping sense of belonging in higher education. However, little research has analyzed religion and belonging at universities. In this study, we test four hypotheses about race, religion, and belonging with survey data from a Christian university in the South. For first-year students, Asians express less belonging than Whites, but no other differences by race or religion appear. Among seniors, Black, Asian, and non…
A person-centered approach to the dark triad traits and religiousness
Sociology (26 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Political science (23 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Law (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (14 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Theology (12 works) · Religious studies (11 works)