In a recent study, the Harvard Divinity School investigated “How religious are America’s college and university professors?” What they discovered was:
- 23.4% of all professors describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics.
- 36.6% of professors from the 50 best doctoral-awarding universities describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics.
- 61% of all psychology and biology professors describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics.
In contrast, only 5.2% of all Americans are atheists according to the Baylor Religion Survey.
[via The Tufts Daily]
The Atheists of Academia…
Interesting statistics about atheists in acadamia. From your experience (as a student or professor) does this seem true at UCONN? When I was a student I never ran into serious hostility to religious faith, though certainly skeptics and professors who…..
[...] There is a general fear as well among Christians at the University of Oregon where I serve that a PhD stands for “Personally hate deity”. A recent study by Harvard attempted to show the higher the level of atheism the higher one moves in academia, in particular the realm of Psychology and Biology. This is not surprising. [...]
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