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The Public Identity Work Of Evangelical Christian Students, Christy D. Moran
The Public Identity Work Of Evangelical Christian Students, Christy D. Moran
Christy Moran Craft
As part of a larger investigation into the experiences of 25 evangelical Christian student leaders at two public universities, students were interviewed to determine how they conceptualized their religious identity as well as how that dimension of their identity impacted their roles and responsibilities as students. Results suggest that the public identity work of these students may involve two interrelated, yet distinct, processes: identity revelation and "identity authentication."