Interfaith Experiences and Their Relationship with Heterosexual Collegians' Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People

For queer-spectrum students, college and university campuses are often sites of marginalization, discrimination, and/or harassment. Though such experiences are not singularly attributable to worldview, research highlights the role that religious identity plays in shaping individuals' perspectiv...

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Published in:Journal of homosexuality 2022-08, Vol.69 (10), p.1655-1678
Main Authors: Crandall, Rebecca E., Dahl, Laura S., Rockenbach, Alyssa N., Mayhew, Matthew J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Bisexual
Bisexuality
College students
Discrimination
Friendship
gay
Gays & lesbians
Harassment
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Insight
Interfaith
interfaith experiences
lesbian
Lesbianism
LGBQ
Marginality
religion
Religious identity
Sexual orientation
spirituality
Student attitudes
Worldview
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Summary:For queer-spectrum students, college and university campuses are often sites of marginalization, discrimination, and/or harassment. Though such experiences are not singularly attributable to worldview, research highlights the role that religious identity plays in shaping individuals' perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. Absent from current scholarship, however, is insight into the ways in which interfaith experiences may influence those attitudes. As such, this study uses data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS) to explore how formal and informal campus interfaith experiences and provocative encounters with worldview diversity relate to heterosexual students' appreciative attitudes toward LGB people. In addition to reinforcing the importance of friendships with individuals of different sexual orientations, our findings underscore the roles that campus space for support and spiritual expression, provocative encounters with worldview diversity, and interfaith behaviors play in fostering heterosexual students' appreciative attitudes toward LGB people.
ISSN:0091-8369
1540-3602
DOI:10.1080/00918369.2021.1921510