Coverage Of Religion Research Articles

The ‘Secular Culture’ of Youth Work Training: Are English Universities Equipping Youth Workers to Work with Diverse Religious Communities?

ABSTRACT Most professionally-qualifying youth work programmes in the UK are secular programmes in mainstream universities. Current UK National Occupational Standards require youth workers to ‘Explore the concept of values and beliefs with young people’. Faith organisations form the largest sector of the UK youth work field and all youth workers need to be equipped to work inclusively with diverse communities. This research explored, through a semi-structured survey sent to programme leaders, the coverage of religion, faith and spirituality in youth work training courses in England. We found tensions in how religion, faith and spirituality are incorporated into programmes and how programme leaders think youth workers should engage with it in their practice. Where explicit content on religion, faith and spirituality is incorporated into training programmes, it tends to focus on controversial issues such as radicalisation. The survey revealed a lack of consensus across programme leaders as to how the NOS relating to values and beliefs should be interpreted and whether their graduates are being sufficiently equipped to work with diverse religious communities. The research exposes a need for more explicit recognition of the place of religion, faith and spirituality in youth work and in the curricula of secular training programmes.

Covering religion: Field insurgency in United States religion reporting

The present study analyzes the role of religion reporting with the journalistic field. Personnel cuts within newsrooms and the development of “religion reporters” operating from religious institutions necessitate a re-exploration of the changing field. At stake is the coverage of religion, a topic particularly pertinent to residents in the United States, nearly 77% of which identify as religious to some degree. Simultaneously, the majority of the United States tends to think journalists cover religion poorly. Through the lens of field theory, this study analyzes 20 interviews with U.S.-based religion reporters who work for both mainstream and religious publications.

Trossamfunn under lupen: Hvordan slipper journalistene gjennom nåløyet?

How do Norwegian journalists operate when investigating religious communities? Does their own faith, or lack of thereof, affect the way they treat the congregations, or is it simply a question of knowledge? This study shows that investigative journalists in Norway primarily use two sets of tools when investigating religious communities. The first is structural investigations, focusing on economics and formal documentation, the latter is about meeting the people in the congregations. Journalists point to knowledge of the Bible as important for getting access to the sources and building trust. The study looks at the coverage of religion based on the SKUP (a Norwegian investigative journalism network) reports about investigative journalism in Norway between 1991 and 2020. It also raises the question whether the journalists lose integrity when flagging their own belief while covering religion. According to the journalists themselves, they do not.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Islam-related Terminologies in Selected Eastern and Western Mass Media

The mass media are blamed for constructing a negative image of Islam through the use of Islam-related terms in reporting terrorism. It is presumed that when Islam-related terms are used without regard to their original connotations, they are likely to lose their original meanings and begin to take on altered meanings created by the media. Therefore, this study aims to explore the use of Islam-related terminologies in selected eastern and western mass media outlets in relation to their semantic and linguistic interpretations. The study employed a qualitative approach in which content analysis was used. Using purposive sampling, The Jordan Times and Al-Jazeera were chosen from the eastern Arab world while The BBC and The Guardian were chosen from the western media. A total of 368 news articles focusing on Islam and Muslims were collected from the selected news media outlets using internet-based search from March 2018 until October 2019. The findings showed significant differences (P = 0.000/P < 0.05) exist between the selected eastern and western mass media outlets in using Islam-related terminologies. The terms are used more frequently in the western media outlets than in the eastern media outlets. Further analysis of the findings revealed that the selected media outlets use Islam-related terminologies, such as “Islamist” and “Jihadist”, in negative contexts. The use of Islam-related terminologies in the selected media outlets could be influential in making the audience to perceive Islam as a religion of terrorism. The negative use of Islam-related terms could be minimized through training of journalists on news coverage of religion, provision of proper guidelines on religious reporting and ensuring that these guidelines are strictly followed. It was envisaged that this study would be useful to the media outlets, particularly in the process of news gathering, production, and dissemination.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Islam-related Terminologies in Selected Eastern and Western Mass Media

The mass media are blamed for constructing a negative image of Islam through the use of Islam-related terms in reporting terrorism. It is presumed that when Islam-related terms are used without regard to their original connotations, they are likely to lose their original meanings and begin to take on altered meanings created by the media. Therefore, this study aims to explore the use of Islam-related terminologies in selected eastern and western mass media outlets in relation to their semantic and linguistic interpretations. The study employed a qualitative approach in which content analysis was used. Using purposive sampling, The Jordan Times and Al-Jazeera were chosen from the eastern Arab world while The BBC and The Guardian were chosen from the western media. A total of 368 news articles focusing on Islam and Muslims were collected from the selected news media outlets using internet-based search from March 2018 until October 2019. The findings showed significant differences (P = 0.000/P < 0.05) exist between the selected eastern and western mass media outlets in using Islam-related terminologies. The terms are used more frequently in the western media outlets than in the eastern media outlets. Further analysis of the findings revealed that the selected media outlets use Islam-related terminologies, such as “Islamist” and “Jihadist”, in negative contexts. The use of Islam-related terminologies in the selected media outlets could be influential in making the audience to perceive Islam as a religion of terrorism. The negative use of Islam-related terms could be minimized through training of journalists on news coverage of religion, provision of proper guidelines on religious reporting and ensuring that these guidelines are strictly followed. It was envisaged that this study would be useful to the media outlets, particularly in the process of news gathering, production, and dissemination.

Conflictual Diversity and Contested Cultural Heritage: Newspaper Coverage of Religion in Norway 1938–2018

The visibility and diversity of religion in selected Norwegian newspapers published in the capital of Oslo is studied in a quantitativeanalysis at ten-year intervals from 1938 to 2018, with an emphasis onthe last forty years. Recent structural transformations in the newspaper industry and editorial choices cut the number of articles on religionconsiderably in 2018 compared to earlier years. However, the relativevisibility of religion in the share of the total editorial output is fairlystable, at about 1.5 per cent of the content. Rather, the changes havebeen with the diversity and criticism of religion. The representationof Islam has strongly increased, while the newspapers have playeddown the coverage of the Lutheran majority church. The conflictualdiversity and contested cultural heritage in the newspaper material arepartly shaped by the media dynamics in the mediatization of religion.

God and sport: Orientalism in Sports Illustrated coverage of religion

Abstract This study utilizes textual analysis to analyse how the popular and influential sports magazine Sports Illustrated covered religion over the period from 1 January 1994, to 1 September 2014. The data showed that the magazine wrote about religion in three primary ways: as an exotic characteristic that makes an athlete somehow odd, as incongruous since sports themselves display similar characteristics to religion, and as a front to hide some insidious real motive. These results are analysed through the lens of Edward Said’s theory of orientalism, which argues that the press tends to cover dominant groups as ‘normal’ and ‘others’ the remaining groups, which has been shown, historically, to have damaging impact. This study concludes with a discussion concerning how SI’s coverage of religion could impact society.

Influence of faith-based organisations on HIV prevention strategies in Africa: a systematic review

The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains of global significance and there is a need to target sub-Saharan Africa since it is the hardest hit region worldwide. Religion and more specifically faith-based organisations can have an effect on socio-cultural factors that increase or decrease the risk of infection; and offer preventative interventions to the wider community. To understand the influence of faith-based organisations on HIV prevention in Africa. The main search engine of a British university 'mysearch' was used as this incorporates all relevant databases. Studies were also retrieved by searches within Google scholar, PubMed and reference lists of included papers were hand searched. The authors assessed the relevance of each article separately against the inclusion criteria. The data extraction form was piloted by the first author and cross-checked by the other authors. Seven studies met all inclusion criteria and were reviewed. Seven individual themes were identified. However, for the purposes of focus within this paper only two themes were focused on. Given the accessibility of faith-based organisations (FBOs) and the coverage of religion among the population, FBOs are potentially important players in HIV prevention. Therefore, more resources and support should be given to support their health promotion strategies.

Measuring Resurgence of Religion?

AbstractThe debate about a resurgence of religion in the public life of Western European societies is ongoing in media and academic circles. Yet there is a shortage of systematic and longitudinal empirical studies of the coverage of religion in European mass media. This article presents some empirical findings, but the focus is on methodological considerations in a longitudinal quantitative content analysis of indicators of religion in editorials in the Swedish daily press from 1976 to 2010. We present and discuss how the selection of keywords and of analytical units affects the outcome of our analysis as to tendencies over time regarding the frequency of religion indicators. As our results show, the question of a resurgence of religion in the daily press has no simple answer. Thus, methodological issues concerning reliability, validity and reflexivity are of crucial importance for this and similar studies measuring cultural change as reflected in the daily press.

Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred: representation and change

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on extensive research conducted on British mainstream media coverage of religion, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. This book opens by laying out the key issues in global perspective. Using research conducted in the 1980s and 2008-10, the authors examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular beliefs and values, and consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Questions arise about the media image of Christianity, how atheist and secularist demands on freedom of speech and equality are treated, and whether the media is anti-Islamic. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the media, and present in all types of media coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages British findings with wider global debates about religion and media.

Coverage of Religion in The Media In Nordic Countries In 1988&amp;#8211;2008 Conclusion

The four preceding articles in this volume of the Nordic Journal of Religion and Society were about the coverage of religion in the Nordic media and are related to the ongoing research programme entitled «The role of religion in the public sphere: A comparative study of the five Nordic countries» (NOREL). The overall research aim of the programme is to provide an outline of the changing role of religion in the public sphere since the late 1980s, and it is partly a continuation of an earlier study by Gustafsson (1985, 1987), which was a comparative study of religious change in the Nordic countries in 1930–1980. The results of the study allow us to discuss whether the changes give support to the notion of a new visibility of religion in the public sphere or whether they support the thesis of the decline of religion in the Nordic countries. The results also allow us to analyse whether the changes in the media reflect the actual changes in the religious situation: for example, the increase in religious diversity and the decline in church membership and attendance. Our findings may be used to discuss to what extent the five Nordic countries are similar or unique in the way they present religion in the media and what this reveals more generally about the religious situation in these countries.

Mediated Religion Across Time and Space. A Case Study of Norwegian Newspapers

In this article, data on coverage of religion in secular newspaper is seen in relation to the theory of mediatization of religion as presented by Stig Hjarvard (2008b, 2011). He describes mediatiza ...

Religion in Newspapers in The Nordic Countries in 1988&amp;#8211;2008

This article examines the coverage of religion in Nordic newspapers during 1988, 1998 and 2008. Through quantitative analyses of 5,000 articles in 14 newspapers, we examine the differences between the five Nordic countries and changes from 1988 to 2008. The results show that the coverage of the Lutheran majority churches in newspapers is generally declining, especially in Sweden. This is the case also during major Christian holidays. Newspapers present religion differently, in the sense that regional papers present a more traditional view of religion and religion is least covered in the tabloid press. There are differences between the five Nordic countries. The newspaper media seems to serve both as a secularising force in society, contesting the role of the majority churches – especially in Sweden and Denmark – and as support for a greater visibility of religion in the public sphere.

Book Review: Following 9/11: Religion Coverage in the New York Times by Christopher Vecsey

Following 9/11: Religion Coverage in the New York Times. Christopher Vecsey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 477 pp. $34.95 hbk.9/11 presented religion reporting with a set of tremendous challenges. Could it distinguish the Islam of most Moslems from the jihadist strain that motivated nineteen terrorists to kill 2,977 innocent people in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia? Could it depict with sensitivity the myriad religious responses to the events and their aftermath? Could it describe the place of religion in the two wars that the United States subsequently waged in Muslim countries?The answer, according to Christopher Vecsey, is a resounding yes! across the board-at least, in the case of the New York Times. I have found the Times' post-9/11 religion coverage to be responsible, estimable journalism, Vecsey says in Following 9/11, not just in any single article in which the reporter tries to define the issue and find viewpoints on its many sides, but also in the totality of reporting.Vecsey, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of the Humanities and Native Studies and Religion at Colgate University, is in a good position to judge. Not only has he been privy to the culture at the Times-his brother George Vecsey is a sports columnist and former national and religion reporter there and, of course, a source for this book-but every day since 1970, he has clipped and filed New York articles about religion, by now filling three file cabinets with twelve drawers of clippings. the fall of 2001, Vecsey had just begun to teach a seminar to first-year Colgate students entitled American Religion in These Times when the horrors of September 11 focused the class's attention on the constant coverage of religion on the front page of the Times. retrospect, it seems inevitable that Vecsey would write Following 9/11.The book is divided into four parts. The first, A Newspaper Challenged, traces how the investigated motivations, meanings, and behaviors to explain the significance of 9/11. Articles celebrated interfaith solidarity, memorialized the dead, and characterized sacred places. Some of the most memorable of these articles were the daily tributes to those who died in the attack on the World Trade Center. Emphasizing the unique character and faith of 2,310 lost lives, the Portraits of Grief series offered consolation to those who were leftbehind to grieve. Vecsey quotes Michael Schudson, who observed, In moments of tragedy journalists assume a pastoral role. …

미디어의 종교보도를 위한 제언: TV 다큐멘터리 &lt;신의 길, 인간의 길&gt;을 통해서

이 연구는 TV 다큐멘터리 <신의 길 인간의 길>을 통해서 미디어가 종교 보도를 할 때 주의할 점을 살펴보았다. 2008년 서울방송에서 방영된 이 다큐멘터리는 한국의 기독교 교리를 비판적인 시각으로 조명했다. 제작자들은 구원에 있어서 배타성을 보이는 기독교가 한국 사회에서 권력으로 자리잡았다고 보았다. 공적 영역에서 영향력을 더해가는 개신교회와 그 활동들이 저널리즘 미디어의 비판 대상이 되는 것은 사회의 제반 다른 영역과 비교해볼 때 당연하다. 그러나 이 다큐멘터리는 기독교의 핵심 교리를 건드려 범개신교 단체의 항의를 받았다. 이 프로그램에서는 기독교의 교리가 신화에 근거를 둔다는 의견이 중요하게 제시되었다. 미디어가 종교의 교리를 보도한다면 객관성과 공정성을 가지고 정통교리와 함께 다양한 관점으로 교리를 보도해야 한다. 또한 종교의 교리에 관한 부분은 어떠한 종교를 막론하고 과학과 이성의 잣대로 비판하기 보다는 성역으로 남겨두어야 한다. 계몽주의 시대의 산물인 미디어가 신비의 영역을 내포하는 종교를 다룰 때 지켜야 할 기본 윤리를 이 연구를 통해 살펴본다. This paper examined some problems of media coverage of religion by analyzing a television documentary. The SBS-TV documentary "God's way Man's way" aired in 2008, critically presented the basic Christian doctrine. The producers of the program estimate that protestant churches in Korea have become an established power, which has influence on a societal and political level. Therefore the producers believe that they have the right to criticize that power, especially because its doctrine about salvation leads to serious conflict with other religions, for example, Islam. This program portrayed the doctrine of Jesus as a story borrowed from ancient myths. Consequently, there were harsh protests from the Korean Christian milieu, especially protestants. The author agrees that it is important for the media to critically cover the activities of religious institutions and the behaviors of religious people in the civil society. However, if producers of a documentary want to introduce controversial doctrines of one religion to an audience, they should present the orthodox ones with alternatives or opposing ones, according to the principle of objectivity and fairness of journalism. Since every religion has its mysterious doctrine that cannot be proven by science and reason, journalists should not criticize the sacred part of religion. This paper suggested some ethical points to the media, children of Enlightenment Age, when they cover the religion including its doctrine and mysterious parts.

The Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, and Universal Decimal Classification Systems are Incomplete and Unsystematic

Objective – To determine the extent to which knowledge is currently addressed by the Library of Congress (LCC), Dewey Decimal (DDC), and Universal Decimal (UDC) classification systems.&#x0D; &#x0D; Design – Comparative analysis of the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems using Zin’s 10 Pillars of Knowledge.&#x0D; &#x0D; Setting – The Faculty of Philosophy and Science at a Brazilian university.&#x0D; &#x0D; Subjects – Forty one subject-related classes and 386 subclasses from the first two levels of the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems. &#x0D; Methods – To evaluate the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems, the researchers employed the 10 Pillars of Knowledge, a “hierarchical knowledge tree” developed by the lead author of this study (p. 878). According to the authors, the 10 Pillars of Knowledge seek to illustrate relationships between fields of knowledge while capturing their breadth. The first level of the Pillars consists of the following categories: Knowledge, Supernatural, Matter and Energy, Space and Earth, Nonhuman Organizations, Body and Mind, Society, Thought and Art, Technology, and History. Each of the 10 Pillars is further subdivided, resulting in a four level hierarchical structure of 76 categories. Of the 76 categories, 55 are unique subject areas. A selection of subject-based classes and subclasses from the first two levels of the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems were then mapped to the relevant subclasses within the Pillars. Analysis was limited to the first two levels of LCC, DDC, and UDC, except for the LCC categories of BF and BL where further subclasses were analyzed. Classes or subclasses in LCC, DDC, or UDC that were not subject based (for example, those based on publication type) were excluded from the study. In total, 41 main classes and 386 subclasses from LLC, DDC, and UDC were categorized using the 10 Pillars.&#x0D; &#x0D; Main Results – The LLC, DDC, and UDC systems were deemed to be complete and systematic in their coverage of only three of the 10 Pillars: Matter and Energy, Thought and Art, and History. This means that there was at least one class or subclass in each of the three systems that corresponded to the subclasses in these pillars. The remaining seven pillars were only partially covered by the three systems to varying degrees. For example, the coverage of religion in LCC and DDC show evidence of a bias towards Christianity and incomplete coverage of other faiths. In addition to the lack of completeness in terms of subject coverage, the researchers found inconsistencies and problems with how relationships between subjects were illustrated by the systems. For example, botany should be a subclass of biology, but the subjects occupy the same level in the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems. Researchers also noted cases where subclasses on the same level were not mutually exclusive e.g., the BR (Christianity) and BS (The Bible) subclasses in LCC. Overall, LLC performed slightly better than DDC or UDC, covering 47 of the 55 unique subject categories in the 10 Pillars. It was followed by UDC with 44 out of 55, and DDC with 43 out of 55. Some of the 55 unique subject categories in the 10 Pillars system were not represented by any of the systems: 3 subclasses under Society (Society at Large – Area Based, Social Groups – Age, and Social Groups – Ethnicity), 2 under Technology (Technologies – Materials and Technologies – Processes), and 1 under Foundations (Methodology).&#x0D; &#x0D; Conclusion – The researchers conclude that none of the three major classification systems analyzed provides complete and systematic coverage of the world of knowledge, and call for the library community to move to new systems, such as the 10 Pillars of Knowledge.

Could this be Political Anthropology? Reflections on Studying Conservative Evangelical Subcultures

For the last three decades (and in fact, the length of U.S. history), faith-based social and political movements – right, left, and center – have been sculpting the American political landscape. Yet the vast majority of our discipline’s coverage of religion and politics (at least in the U.S.) has, until recently, depended on quantitative analysis, usually using large-scale survey and opinion polling on attitudes, practices, and beliefs. If political scientists hope to understand religious politics and faith-based social change efforts in more than superficial, stereotyping ways, we must be willing to explore religious subcultures up close. That involves developing a set of ethnographic research skills that may be less familiar (or comfortable) for political scientists than for sociologists and anthropologists. To some extent, it means carrying out creative observational and interactive research at the fuzzy (and undertheorized) boundary between the realms of “culture” and “politics”.This paper summarizes insights from a multi-methods book project I am completing on racial change efforts among contemporary evangelical Protestants in the U.S. Participants in this movement draw on theology- and culture-based resources to promote a variety of racial change outcomes, including racial reconciliation processes, multiethnic church-building, and cross-racial political coalitions. In addition to using textual analysis, survey data, and interviews with participants in the movement, I conducted ethnographic research in a variety of evangelical cultural contexts (sermons, meetings, prayer groups, workshops, actions), and developed long-term, discussion-based relationships with a few movement leaders. I will discuss the lessons learned and the potential minefields to avoid in studying religious subcultures. My hope is that other political scientists, particularly those working on faith-based movements and the intersections of identities (race, religion, class, gender, etc.) will benefit from these reflections on how we can develop smarter, more creative and nuanced studies of culture and politics.

Faith and Values: Journalism and the Critique of Religion Coverage of the 1990s

This article explores whether changes in newspaper coverage of religion reflect an array of concerns that were raised in the 1990s. It seeks to establish a baseline of what groups are portrayed in staff-written articles carried on religion pages and finds that some changes reflect critics' concerns while others might appear to amplify them. Of particular interest is the growth of instrumental “values” coverage with little or no overt connection to the religious precepts that underlie its topics.

Coverage of Terri Schiavo Controversy Not Found to Be Anti-Christian

As the nation watched, family fought over Terri Schiavo, brain-damaged woman in persistent vegetative state. Her husband wanted remove her feeding tube and allow her die, while her parents and siblings wanted it remain in place keep her alive. This dispute sparked nationwide legal, medical, political and religious debates. As the rhetoric increased in intensity, the media's coverage often became the focus of criticism. Many conservative evangelical Christians against removing Schiavo's feeding tube attacked the media for having liberal and bias. The American Family Association argued, When it comes spewing venom, however, columnists at The Washington Post and The New York Times are gold-medal winners1 Thus, they urged Christians to shrug off the rabid attacks of the media babblers who see Christians as the enemy.2 Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, attacked the Schiavo coverage of The New York Times for an that represented a full frontal assault on pro-life Christians.3The question thus raised is whether these accusations of media bias, especially an anti-Christian one, are accurate. This study explores the complaints of media bias made by some conservative evangelical Christians concerning the Terri Schiavo controversy by analyzing the coverage of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. This study also offers important implications for the coverage of the Schiavo case as well as about complaints of media bias.Religion News CoverageIn the inaugural issue of the Journal of Media and Religion, the editors discussed the status of research on religion and media, maintaining that it is and neglected but greatly important.4 Several studies have explored media coverage of religious issues or individuals, but many questions about this important area remain. Studies have demonstrated that the media generally focus on the values held by religious groups,5 that references God have changed over time6 and that fundamentalist Christians are negatively framed.7 Case studies of specific news stories have found that journalists propagate stereotypes,8 focus on hypocrisy of religious leaders9 and frame conflict as holy battle.10 Such depictions of religious individuals are important since negative press coverage of religious leaders leads decreases in the confidence in organized religion in public opinion polls.11Although scholars have analyzed media coverage of religion, such studies rarely include considerations of bias. Despite the growing body of research on media bias, it remains an understudied area.12 In studies on bias in newspaper coverage, scholars have considered media bias by examining how favorable newspaper coverage is toward certain group of people13 or in terms of sources quoted, particularly if there is an imbalance.14 This present study considers both aspects of bias. Despite the dearth of attention bias of religion coverage, such matters remain critically important religious individuals because churches and denominations are becoming increasing dependent on the mainstream media explain who they are others 15 and often it is through that secular coverage that people form their opinions about particular religious group.16MethodThis study examines the coverage of religious issues and individuals during the controversy surrounding Terri Schiavo and whether her feeding tube should be removed. The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today were chosen for analysis as nationally circulated publications and because the newspapers are frequently targeted by conservative evangelical Christians who accuse them of media bias.All pieces that mentioned Schiavo except for letters the editor were examined for 25-month period from April 1, 2003, until May 1, 2005. This period includes two years before and one month following Schiavo's death on March 31, 2005. …

Training and Education in Religion/Spirituality Within APA-Accredited Clinical Psychology Programs: 8 Years Later

This study was a follow up investigation of Brawer et al.'s (Prof Psychol Res Pr 33(2):203-206, 2002) survey of education and training of clinical psychologists in religion/spirituality. Directors of clinical training were surveyed to determine whether changes had occurred in the coverage of religion and spirituality through course work, research, supervision, and in the systematic coverage of the content area. Results indicated an increased coverage in the areas of supervision, dedicated courses, inclusion as part of another course, and research. There was no increase in systematic coverage, but significantly more programs provided at least some coverage. The current study also assesses other areas of incorporation as well as directors' opinions regarding the importance of religion/spirituality in the field of psychology.