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Joseph P. Laycock, assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University, considers the belief to be religious,<ref name="laycock">{{Cite journal|last=Laycock|first=Joseph P.|date=February 2012|title=We Are Spirits of Another Sort|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65|journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions|volume=15|pages=65-90}}</ref> but most otherkin firmly disagree with being classified as a religion. This is because otherkin are not a formal organization with leaders or members, they do not agree on any cosmological or spiritual beliefs (some otherkin do not believe in spirituality at all), and otherkin independently come to the conclusion that they are other than human, sometimes without even knowing anybody else felt that way. By definition, otherkin is not a religion, and is not similar to a religion.<ref name="scribner simple" /> | Joseph P. Laycock, assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University, considers the belief to be religious,<ref name="laycock">{{Cite journal|last=Laycock|first=Joseph P.|date=February 2012|title=We Are Spirits of Another Sort|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65|journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions|volume=15|pages=65-90}}</ref> but most otherkin firmly disagree with being classified as a religion. This is because otherkin are not a formal organization with leaders or members, they do not agree on any cosmological or spiritual beliefs (some otherkin do not believe in spirituality at all), and otherkin independently come to the conclusion that they are other than human, sometimes without even knowing anybody else felt that way. By definition, otherkin is not a religion, and is not similar to a religion.<ref name="scribner simple" /> | ||
Some but not all otherkin may consider themselves under the umbrella term "alterhuman", a word coined in 2014 "as an umbrella term and identity for anyone who feels they have an identity beyond the scope of how one might typically think of 'being human.'"<ref>https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/729561151173738496/a-list-of-some-alterhuman-identities-and-groups</ref> | |||
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