PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS

1 online resource (100 pages) : PDF

2017

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The question driving this thesis is to what extent religious othering is actually experienced compared to the extent to which religious othering is simply perceived. To seek an answer to this question the author chose to analyze the ways in which college students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have experienced religious othering or have perceived religious othering. By first examining theoretical philosophies to better understand religious othering and then by using data collected from UNCC students, the author argues how religious othering is often a perception which the perpetrator or victim holds and not an actual experience; this perception of othering is one of the key factors as to why othering persists.

masters theses

Religion
Ethics
Philosophy and religion

M.A.

Girard
Kristeva
Mary Douglas
Orsi
Othering
Taves

Religious Studies

McCloud, Sean

Brintnall, Kent
Winters, Joseph

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2017.

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