While less religious than the general public, academics are still mostly religious. I'm not so sure about this though (emphasis mine):
It also reinforces my argument that academics' unfavorable views of Evangelical Christians and Mormons are mostly due to hostility to these groups' conservative political ideologies rather than a generalized antagonism to religion as such.
It would be interesting to correlate childhood factors with subsequent attitudes. Of course, I am thinking "were the people who are anti-religion now raised with religion then. " That strikes me as a good cause for future rejection (intimate experience, familiarity breeding contempt, what have you).
Posted by binky at June 22, 2008 11:57 PM | TrackBack | Posted to The AcademyWell I'd throw in, as possible reasons other than their political orientations, the possibility that it relates to low opinions of some of those religions' religious practices.
Posted by: Armand at June 23, 2008 09:46 AM | PERMALINKYeah, especially if they'd originally been on the wrong end of them. Like I always say, church cured me of religion.
Posted by: binky at June 23, 2008 09:57 AM | PERMALINK