Comments on: God in the Academy http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/10/19/god-in-the-academy/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jeremy Pierce http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/10/19/god-in-the-academy/comment-page-1/#comment-22641 Jeremy Pierce Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:42:34 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/10/19/god-in-the-academy/#comment-22641 I’d be very surprised if the number of atheist philosophers is as low as any of these figures for other disciplines. Maybe it’s just that I’m not interacting with philosophers unless they’re better known philosophers and thus in the elite category, but it seems something like 80% atheists to me among the philosophers I’ve had any contact with, and that’s coming from an institution with a tradition of theists in the department. The numbers in this report seem much lower for academia as a whole and for other fields.

My graduate program has 25% of the graduate students who are theists, and pretty much everyone reacts with shock at hearing that it’s that high. It’s not been that high in the past, either. Most Ph.D. programs in philosophy might have one or two theists at most, including both faculty and graduate students. I’m sure there are many with none.

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