Religiosity and college major

[sarahmichigan]

I felt I needed to point out that the study was funded by the John Templeton Foundation when I wrote this. They're the folks that give a prize - intentionally more money than the Nobel each year- to a scientist who makes nice between science and religion

University of Michigan study shows link between college major, religious faith

Comments

[bernmarx.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

The findings for social science at once surprise me and don't at all. Anthropology and sociology in particular seem prone to encouraging its students to realize that there are different cultures (hence different religions) out there, which on the one hand would lead to less religiosity (if as many people believe in Krishna as believe in YHWH, that undermines YHWH's credibility), but on the other hand would lead to some specific individuals finding a faith more suited to their personal beliefs (a lifelong Christian becoming Shinto, for instance). I suppose it does make sense that the former shift in religiosity would have a greater impact on the group as a whole than the latter shift.

By the way, you misspelled "mankind" (somewhat unfortunately).

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the catch- this is one site where I can actually fix typos myself. Some of the other places I write for I can't- so annoying!

I've fixed the "mankinc" problem. ;)