Religous Beliefs of College Faculty
February 13, 2008 by Paul Webster
Filed under Christianity, Culture War, Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, Worldview
The Institute for Jewish and Community Research of San Francisco published a study on the religious beliefs of college faculty. The study was conducted by Gary Tobin, Ph.D and Aryeh Weinberg. It’s major findings are not necessarily surprising. Here they are:
- Most faculty believe in God, but atheism is significantly more prevalent among faculty than the general public.
- Faculty are much less religious than the general public.
- Religious beliefs of college faculty are highly associated with political identity and behavior.
- Most faculty are secular or liberal.
- Faculty feel warmly about most religious groups but feel coldly about Evangelicals and Mormons.
- Faculty feel most unfavorably about Evangelical Christians.
- Faculty are almost unanimous in their belief that Evangelical Christians (Fundamentalists) should keep their religious beliefs out of American politics.
- Although faculty generally oppose religion in the public sphere, many endorse the idea that Muslims should express their religious beliefs in American politics.
Of course, this is no surprise. And, in light of the upcoming release of the Ben Stein documentary Expelled, the notion of the thought police and intellectual intolerance becomes more realistic.
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That is very interesting stuff. I wonder what benefit it serves for the education community to show and perpetuate such intolerance? I don’t understand. They must be getting something out of it. A sense of moral superiority?
Definitely a sense of moral superiority. The thing that made college the most difficult for me was having Christianity bashed in one way or another in almost all of my classes.