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This article examines student engagement with chaplaincy services through a pilot survey administered at a private liberal arts college (n = 1043). Almost half of the respondents reported engagement with campus chaplains, which varied by religious tradition and race. Respondents who had engaged with chaplains were more likely to report integrating spirituality into daily life, feeling supported in wrestling with life's big questions, and experiencing spiritual growth. They were not more likely to feel they were resilient or could manage stress. The authors encourage researchers to build on the model and findings presented here to identify empirically how chaplaincy services affect students.

What is the role of the chaplain on the 21st century campus? Comparing today's chaplains to their mid-century counterparts, this article presents findings from the National Study of Campus Ministries. Based on a 2006 survey of 1,659 campus religious professionals, it focuses on a subsample of 335 chaplains employed in private colleges and universities and 80 in-depth interviews with college chaplains conducted prior to the survey. While chaplains perform many different roles, this study focuses on three that capture the changing place of the profession in the 21st century: campus prophets, spiritual guides, and interfaith traffic directors.

The dominant approach to the history of higher education has privileged the story of secularization. The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education presents a different narrative, emphasizing heightened attention to religion in the academy, the revitalization of religious colleges, and the diversification of student religious life. This article summarizes the argument of the 2018 book and provides an update in light of the events of the past five years, including the impact of COVID-19 and the persistence of systemic racism in American society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay responds to the four panelists in the symposium on The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education. It notes the convergence of the four panelists around some issues, as well as their differences. It concludes by arguing that colleges and universities must create a more religiously inclusive campus for all students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract What role does organized religion play in the life of the American campus? Among both scholarly and popular observers, the university has long been regarded as secular territory. Contrary [...]

Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life By Elaine Howard Ecklund Oxford University Press. 2006. 211 pages. $22.95 paper. Reading Korean American Evangelicals, I was struck with how useful [...]

WHITHER RELIGION ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES at the advent of the twenty-first century? Through the 1980s and most of the 1990s the themes of loss and detachment dominated discussion about the [...]

Edited by Rhys H. Williams. Aldine de Gruyter, 1997. 299 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $22.95. Reviewer: JOHN SCHMALZBAUER, College of the Holy Cross Every so often a sociological expression ('WASP,' [...]

by CHRISTIAN SMITH with MICHAEL EMERSON, SALLY GALLAGHER, PAUL KENNEDY and DAVID SIKKINK. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 310 pp. $45.00, $16.00 (pbk). Over the past two decades, [...]

RELIGIOUS IDEAS FOR SECULAR UNIVERSITIES. By C. John Sommerville. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009. Pp. xi + 189. $18. The past 15 years have witnessed the publication of dozens of [...]