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Reference entry: Rockenbach, A. N., Lo, M. A., & Mayhew, M. J. (2017). How LGBT college students perceive and engage the campus religious and spiritual climate. Journal of Homosexuality, 64 (4), 488-508. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1191239 Important points to take away from this article. .  Point #1 Students who are part of the LGBT community attending to a religious institution can have a very hard time adapting and fitting for more than one reason. o Students can suffer discrimination for their sexual orientation and also for racism if student is from a different ethnic group.  Point #2 This article gives information about how context and community are two very different things that cannot be pass on to between members of the LGBT community because each member of the community experiences a different journey with different experiences. o Students find themselves having an awkward relationship with their religious identity because on one hand they are told how bad their preferences are and how it’s a sin. Students don’t feel understood or accepted for who they really are. Disagreed with/Most interesting /Confused by (do at least one of the first two!)  Disagreement point: o I disagree with the results of the study done because it showed the lack of tolerance with the LGBT group, lack of religiously diversity in their campus and showing little support for their spiritual expression. But also, their study size was not a big sample to take fully in consideration. (Pg 500).  Interesting point: o Students tend to have a better relationship with God (or a higher being) and/or spirituality when they are not attending a religious institution (pg 493). o Because students are not experiencing the judgment of their sexual orientation by their peers, they are able to feel and decide what makes them feel right. Discussion Questions & explanations:  Required question #1: Why are some religious campuses getting away with this type of discrimination against LGBT students ?  Answer #1: o How would you answer if someone asked you the same question?  I think religious campuses are getting away with this situation because majority of time they don’t do it to be malicious but mostly because people in the religious community are taught that homosexuality is a sin and something “unnatural” which leads to people to judge and over react. o And/or why are you asking this question? What is your interest in it? How did the article “inspire” your question? I asked this question because I imagined asking it

to one faculty member from a religious school and one student who attends to this type of institution, because it will be like having first hand information. This article inspires me to learn know about topics related to the LGBT community, since my younger brother came out as gay, I want to always be there for him when difficult situations come at him. I can’t defend him from the world but I can teach myself on how to help him in a way that he learns to respond for himself.  Required question #2: How can religious schools’ approach LBGT students into believing in God or a higher power?  Answer #2:  I think religious schools need to drop the “you’re sinning and for that you’re going to hell” and instead learn to attract students by supporting them and making it known that religion and spirituality have no gender/ Opinion: Keep? Keep if nothing better? For the love of the green earth, do not use this article again? Explain your answer This article was published more than a decade and I still think we have a few of the discriminations in today’s days for members of the LGBT community. I

Reference entry: Silver, C. F., Coleman, T. J., Hood, R. W., & Holcombe, J. M. (2014). The six types of nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 17(10), 990-1001. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2014.987743 Important points to take away from this article.  Point #1 Each typology works differently for everyone and it helps individuals depending their needs and what they hope to find in life. o I find it very interesting to know that the Intellectual Atheist/Agnostic group like to educate themselves through intellectual sources and like to obtain knowledge on topics they find interesting like ontology. The IAA uses all resources (such as the internet, social media, data base, books, etc) to inform themselves. The AAA group is more about helping the community support multiple causes, allying with different groups to make each case stronger.  Point #2 Spirituality is viewed as an alternate faith. o I believe because each group and each religion have different beliefs, spirituality is less heavy than believing in God or a higher being, but more in believing in one self. o I was very interested about two groups in particular, the AAA and the RAA. The AAA is a group which I feel very identified with, supporting different causes not limiting to any subject, helping other groups and having a very open mind about separating business, and joining others to support the cause. The RAA group sounds like a perfect way to respect and enjoy each religion without the need to commit to anything because their atheistic beliefs. Disagreed with/Most interesting /Confused by (do at least one of the first two!)  Disagreement point: o I like the Ritual Atheist/Agnostics group but I think this is an easy way not to commit to a religion because of freedom and benefits it provides. The RAA seems like a freebie pass to experience religion without believing in God, but I identified more with spirituality because the article does say that RAA practitioners see masses, rituals and ceremonies as a way to find their inner person (pg. 996) o I don’t like how the way the Anti-theist group expresses about other religious groups referring to them as ignorant people. o The idea of AT members feeling superior than anyone who does not share the same view, they see others as weak and below them, this comes from their “psychological maturity” (Pg, 995)  Interesting point: o It is a very interesting thing to see how the sixth typologies work perfectly for each individual who forms part of a group. If we think about it is like each member found their own sense of value, and a group where similar beliefs are shared by other people. (pg. 993-996)

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