A Post-Intentional Exploration of Agnostic College Students’ Experiences

• DOI: 10.1353/csd.2017.0056
• Publication Date: 2017-07-30T09:00:15Z
• Authors: Amanda Armstrong
• Keywords: Agnosticism

Scholars have adapted college student identity development models to examine and highlight the unique, laborious, varied experiences of marginalized populations. However, researchers minimally explored perspectives nontheistic nonreligious students using poststructural methodologies. I followed a post-intentional phenomenological study design (N = 10) explore how being agnostic or holding worldview inclusive agnosticism might take shape for some undergraduate in college. Findings suggest that, while constructing their identities, this moved through tentative manifestations as reflected by external internal influences (resources family), processing (identities labels), (interpersonal relations involvement).