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Without A Prayer?: Spirituality And Performance In Law School – A Reply To Professor Taylor, Richard E. Redding

Richard E. Redding

Professor Scott Taylor’s Spirituality and Academic Performance at a Catholic Law School: An Empirical Study was disheartening to Catholics and fellow travelers because it reported finding no relationship between the spirituality of law students and their academic performance at a prominent Catholic law school committed to its religious identity. In this essay, I explain how Professor Taylor’s study – the first and only one of its kind – is so methodologically flawed it leaves us unable to conclude anything about whether spirituality is related to academic performance. After a review of the few prior research studies on spirituality and performance, …