NEARLY A QUARTER OF PROFESSORS FOUND TO BE RATIONALISTS

LIZ YATES, TUFTS DAILY - Researchers at the Harvard Divinity School
recently implemented a study to determine the religiosity of college and
university professors around the country. The study, entitled "How
religious are America's college and university professors?," has been
circulating throughout academia since last year. It will be published in
a forthcoming volume entitled "The American University in a Post-Secular
Age," edited by Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Jacobsen, Oxford University
Press.

The study found that 23.4 percent of college and university professors
describe themselves as either atheists or agnostics, with the remainder
reporting some level of belief in God or another higher power. The
authors also made a distinction between the general professoriate and
those professors who teach at "elite doctoral institutions," as defined
by the US News and World Report's list of the 50 best doctoral-awarding
universities. In the latter category, 36.6 percent of respondents
described themselves as atheists or agnostics. . .

The fields of accounting, elementary education, finance, marketing, art,
criminal justice and nursing were found to have the highest rates of
religious professors, ranging from 44.4 percent to 63 percent.
Psychology and biology tied for the lowest percentages of religious
professors, with 61 percent of respondents in both fields describing
themselves as atheists or agnostics.

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