ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

对于酷儿谱系的学生来说，学院和大学校园通常是边缘化、歧视和/或骚扰的场所。虽然这些经历并非单一归因于世界观，但研究强调了宗教身份在塑造个人对女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋 (LGB) 人的看法方面所起的作用。然而，目前的学术研究缺乏对信仰间经历可能影响这些态度的方式的洞察。因此，本研究使用来自不同信仰多样性经验和态度纵向调查 (IDEALS) 的数据来探索正式和非正式的校园信仰经历以及与世界观多样性的挑衅性遭遇与异性恋学生对 LGB 人的欣赏态度之间的关系。