http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_10_08_archive.html#116041035018029596
Religion and the Professoriate
Inside Higher Ed reports on a survey of university professors and
religion. It turns out that they aren't all atheists:
Listen to many critics of higher education, and you would think that
faith had been long ago banished from the quad ? or at least all those
quads not at places like Notre Dame or Liberty or Yeshiva.
This is a bit of a strawman argument. I don't think anyone claims that
they are all atheists.
It turns out though, that there are plenty of believers on college
faculties. Professors may be more skeptical of God and religion than
Americans on average, but academic views and practices on religion are
diverse, believers outnumber atheists and agnostics, and plenty of
professors can be found regularly attending religious services.
These are some of the findings of a national survey of professors at
all types of institutions, conducted for a presentation sponsored by
the Social Science Research Council. The survey was conducted and
analyzed by two sociologists, Neil Gross of Harvard University and
Solon Simmons of George Mason University.
In March, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles
released a study indicating that more than 80 percent of college
professors consider themselves spiritual. The new study focuses more...
