@article {Stevenson:2013:1466-6529:27,
title = "Discourses of inclusion and exclusion: Religious students in UK higher education",
journal = "Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning",
parent_itemid = "infobike://openu/jwpll",
publishercode ="openu",
year = "2013",
volume = "14",
number = "3",
publication date ="2013-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "27-43",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1466-6529",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/openu/jwpll/2013/00000014/00000003/art00003",
doi = "doi:10.5456/WPLL.14.3.27",
keyword = "students, higher education, religion, inclusion",
author = "Stevenson, Jacqueline",
abstract = "Despite a decade of research into inclusion, religious students have been largely ignored within the widening participation and diversity literature. Researching religion and higher education (HE) in the UK, unlike within the US context, is seen as potentially risky territory.
Where religion is discussed it is largely in relation to a discourse that problematises and demonises religion around ideas of religious fundamentalism in particular within the Muslim community or as formal and technical responses to equality legislation. Consequently, unlike
considerations of class, race or gender, the widening participation literature has mostly ignored or racialised religious affiliation, and religion remains, for the most part, unrecognised within institutional policy making. Drawing on research with Christian, Sikh, Muslim and Jewish students,
this paper highlights the ways in which such a tacit avoidance of the subject of religion on the secular campus, punctuated only by the discourse of fundamentalism, results in the silencing and marginalisation of many religious students.",
}