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Protestant privilege in mainstream academia was corrected largely by privitization of religion. That led to overcorrection that discourages expression of religious viewpoints in academia and favors secular viewpoints. Self-selection plays a some role in the underrepresentation of traditionalist religioius viewpoints in academia, but discrimination against those who hold such viewpoints is well-documented. Often the discrimination is based on perceived conservatism on social and political issues among those who are religiously traditionalist. Political liberals should acknowledge that they, like other interest groups have their own discriminatory rules for membership and exclusion.
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Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, “How Religious are America’s College and University Professors,” religion.ssrc.org/ 2007. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, “The Religiosity of American College and University Professors” Sociology of Religion (2009) 70 (2): 101–129 doi:10.1093/socrel/srp026
See George M. Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
I reflect on these issues and their historical roots in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: the 1950s and the Crisis of Religious Belief (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
I elaborate all of the above points in The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Neil Gross, Why Are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013), 162.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 76–113.
Gross, Why are Professors Liberal?, 115.
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Marsden, G.M. Religious Discrimination in Academia. Soc 52, 19–22 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-014-9853-3
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