tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post7589847057848616672..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: The Holy Trinity of Sports -- Exposed! And More on Politics in the AcademyPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-65322821712745592132007-12-15T12:56:00.000-07:002007-12-15T12:56:00.000-07:00Craig Forney just published a book on religion and...Craig Forney just published a book on religion and sports with Mercer. I have not read it, but I thought anyone interested in the topic should know. Forney also wrote a fantastic dissertation on religion in the life of W. E. B. Du Bois if you are looking for some ILL fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-76191319338518604602007-12-13T15:10:00.000-07:002007-12-13T15:10:00.000-07:00I'd love to hear the sort of conversations Eugene ...I'd love to hear the sort of conversations Eugene McCarraher, Villanova Dept of Humanities, might have with Maranto. McCarraher's Mencken-esque diatribes against the high priests of capitalism that appear in Books and Culture are always wildly entertaining. <BR/>http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/006/15.37.html <BR/><BR/>I wonder if there are political opinion surveys of academics? <BR/><BR/>Though this does not necessarily have much to do with the left/right spectrum... In a survey conducted in the last year or so professors from Harvard and George Mason saw some surprising stats concerning academics' beliefs about God: <BR/><BR/>"A professor’s field of research or discipline is also predictive, he adds: psychologists and biologists are most likely to be nonbelievers (61 percent are atheist or agnostic), followed by mechanical engineers, economists, and political scientists. The most likely believers are professors of accounting (63 percent have no doubt that God exists), followed by professors of elementary education, finance, art, criminal justice, and nursing."<BR/><BR/>http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/faculty-faith.htmlRandallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.com