The Religious Convictions of College and University Professors

The American University in a Postsecular Age: Religion and the Academy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gross, Neil ^a   Simmons, Solon ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnostic; Atheist; Believer; Politics; Professoriate; Secularization; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920553628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323443.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

References (5)

1. Christopher Jencks and David Riesman, The Academic Revolution (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1968).
2. David Hollinger, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth- Century American Intellectual History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).
3. George Marsden, The Soul of the University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 430. Marsden himself offers a more complex version of this narrative.
4. See http://nces.ed.gov/das/library/tables_listings/show_nedrc.asp?rt=p&tableID=2988.
5. Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).