The Religiosity of American College and University Professors.
For more than a century most U.S. colleges and universities have functioned as secular institutions. But how religious are American college and university faculty in their personal lives? We answer this question by analyzing data from a new, nationally representative survey of the American professor...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Religion Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 101 - 130 |
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Oxford University Press / UK
Summer 2009
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