University Challenges: Negotiating Secularism and Religiosity in Higher Education Institutions

Jones, Rhys

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“…This poses a challenge in consolidating religious provision, including established places of worship, which often take place in makeshift and contingent spaces that are accessed through informal connections and arrangements. For example, a redundant gymnasium had been developed in conjunction with university international recruitment programmes (Dafydd Jones, 2014). As these facilities tend to be 'ordinary spaces ritually made extraordinary' (Kong, 2001, p.218), they seldom take the expected archetypical form and do of an Islamic sacred space, and consequently many Muslims in an area aren't aware of the facilities that exist for communal worship in a vicinity (Dafydd Jones, 2010).…”

Section: Muslim Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-pastoral? Rethinking religion and the reconstruction of rural space

Jones

Heley

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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a b s t r a c tThe emergence of an extensive literature exploring the post-secularism in recent years has revived interest in the role of religion in society. However, such studies are overwhelmingly focussed on the urban experience, while the relationship between rurality and post-secularism remains largely unconsidered. Set against the back-drop of challenges to rural religious organization, such as redundant buildings, merged parishes, and lack of incumbents, this paper examines the endogenous actions of lay-people in sustaining religious services. Examining the examples of Church in Wales and Muslim worshippers in rural Wales, we argue that these actions constitute a 'post-pastoral' experience, which although maintaining religious identities, challenge the traditional community leadership roles associated with professional clerics. As a consequence, distinctions between urban and rural experiences of post-secular activities are revealed, suggesting that the potential for the countryside to experience similar involvement of faith-based organizations in benevolent action as the city is limited. This highlights the need for more attention on training and support for lay-people by religious organizations by both academics and policy formulators.

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Section: Muslim Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-pastoral? Rethinking religion and the reconstruction of rural space

Jones

Heley

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Linked with debates about institutional contexts (e.g. Olson and Reddy, 2016) and national policy, geographers have also drawn attention to the issue of Islamophobia on university campuses in diferent contexts such as Australia (Possamai et al, 2016), England (Hopkins, 2010) and Wales (Jones, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Hopkins

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Different forms of discrimination, marginalisation and exclusion have been central concerns for social geography for over 50 years now. Some forms of prejudice are historically resistant, long-lasting and have featured in social geography for many decades (such as racism and sexism); others have emerged more recently within social geography debates as well as in the wider society and are less well understood. In this second progress report on social geography, I explore recent research about Islamophobia, transphobia and sizism that demonstrates that each of these forms of prejudice is worthy of further study and analysis in their own right by social geographers and scholars in related fields. I argue that it would be productive to investigate areas of connection and solidarity across and within these different prejudices and others in order to be able to resist multiple forms of discrimination, intolerance and hate.

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“…Andersson et al (2012) offer a counterpoint to these notions of solidarity, arguing that such student-centric spaces can become sites of marginalisation if certain groups are prevented from participating in activities. They employ Massey's (2005, p.151) concept of 'throwntogetherness'-'the chance that space may set us down next to the unexpected neighbour'-to highlight how the seemingly heterogeneous 'student life' can become inaccessible for those who do not fit a pre-defined 'student identity' (see also Fincher & Shaw, 2009;Holdsworth, 2009a;Jones, 2014;Taulke-Johnson, 2008). Moreover, linking such discourses to the aforementioned notions of self-segregation highlights the potential for issues of position and privilege that favour the dominant social group-often White, middle-class, heterosexual, and secular-defined by Andersson et al (2012) as 'campus insiders', with more marginal groups positioned as 'other'.…”

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Examining student's night‐time activity spaces: identities, performances, and transformations

Holton

2016

Geographical Research

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It has become increasingly clear that social activities play an important role for many UK undergraduate students in informing identity and place attachment through interactions with their term‐time location. While attention has been given to the ways in which students construct ‘exclusive geographies’ through self‐segregation from non‐students, thus far there has been very little discussion of how students' identities may be affected by their changing activity spaces and how this may blur the boundaries between student and non‐student spaces. Exploring these transformations over the duration of the degree is important as they highlight how identity performances may be influenced by students' transitions through university and their changing mobility patterns. This paper will address such matters by considering the following: (1) how first year activity spaces may constitute a student bubble for new undergraduates; (2) how, in subsequent years, these activity spaces adapt as students hone their social practices and explore environments less associated with student life; and (3) how ‘local’ student's activity spaces can become complex as they contemplate locating their multiple identities during term time.

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University Challenges: Negotiating Secularism and Religiosity in Higher Education Institutions

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

Post-pastoral? Rethinking religion and the reconstruction of rural space

Post-pastoral? Rethinking religion and the reconstruction of rural space

Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Examining student's night‐time activity spaces: identities, performances, and transformations

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