Muslim students’ cultural and religious experiences in city, suburban and regional university campuses in NSW, Australia

ABSTRACT

Although there has been much research about the growing ethnic and religious diversity on university campuses across the world, relatively little is known about the religious and cultural experiences of Muslim students on university campuses in Australia. We draw upon an analysis of a questionnaire that was completed by 323 Muslim students who were studying at universities in the state of New South Wales, Australia. While we argue that these places are post-secular, we discovered that city campuses tend to be more secular than regional and suburban ones.

KEYWORDS:

• Muslims
• religious discrimination
• students
• university campus

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.