NY Times: Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus

[asteriskea]

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Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. To be seen as religious often meant being dismissed as not very bright, he said.</p>

<p>No longer. At Harvard these days, said Professor Gomes, the university preacher, “There is probably more active religious life now than there has been in 100 years.”</p>

<p>Across the country, on secular campuses as varied as Colgate University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Berkeley, chaplains, professors and administrators say students are drawn to religion and spirituality with more fervor than at any time they can remember…

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02spirituality.html?_r=1&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/education/02spirituality.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[Xanatos]

<p>Well, we can’t all be as laudable as the Turks, can we?</p>

<p>Furthermore, I take issue with one of the assumptions of the article. Just because people are taking religion courses doesn’t imply that they are religious themselves. It’s called intellectual curiosity.</p>

[leanid]

<p>Gee whiz, I thought God was dead and we don’t need all that religious hocus-pocus stuff anymore… I mean our own innate goodness/intelligence will be enough to handle anything that fate throws our way…right?</p>