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Title: A Private and Public University Case Study Analysis of How Existential Worldview Diversity Infrastructure Emerged
Language: English
Authors: Simran Kaur-Colbert
Source: ProQuest LLC. 2022Ph.D. Dissertation, Miami University.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 182
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Religious Factors, Diversity (Institutional), Student Personnel Services, Institutional Characteristics, Cultural Pluralism
ISBN: 979-83-529-7444-5
Abstract: Existential worldview diversity infrastructure has emerged across public and private higher education institutions in the interest of advancing religious pluralism, yet receives little attention from current literature, graduate preparation programs, and student affairs practitioners from a critical religious pluralism theoretical and social justice framework. The existing literature around the field of interfaith-interreligious studies, college student religious and spiritual development, campus religious and spiritual climate, and multicultural organization development does not address how this infrastructure emerged let alone the way that white Christonormativity and the false neutral of secularism is embedded within liberatory models for advancing religious pluralism in student affairs and higher education. My qualitative case study is grounded in a constructivist paradigm informed by the critical theoretical perspectives of Critical Religious Pluralism Theory and Third World Feminist Theory. My case study involved two levels of sampling. The first level sampled a private university (Southwestern Catholic University, SWCU), and public university (Midwestern Public University, MPU). The second level sampled participants within each university's existential worldview diversity infrastructure: Center for Religion and Social Justice at SWCU and the Multifaith Collective at MPU. The range of participants' insights point to the substantive impact that engaging with religious pluralism had on the emergence of existential worldview diversity infrastructure at each university. Interviewed administrators, faculty, and campus religious advisors understood that methods for religious pluralism allow students to feel connected at the intersection of their religious, secular, and spiritual identity. Overall, my analysis does not minimize religious oppression nor is it complicit with white Christonormativity. Instead, I consider and raise the topic of societal transformation around religious pluralism in student affairs and higher education especially around how existential worldview diversity infrastructure emerged at one public and one private university. On one hand I uncovered that the CRSJ emerged as an apparatus that might disrupt the tension between white Christian religious hegemony and pluralism at SWCU. On the other hand, I uncovered that the MC emerged as apparatus with the capacity to disrupt the false neutral of secularism at MPU with its efforts to advance religious pluralism. My analysis illuminated how the elements of power and privilege act as undercurrents to the work of critical religious pluralism in a public and private university context. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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