On Friday, our week in review linked to Patricia Cohen's article about political liberalism in the academy, "Professor is a Label That Leans to the Left." The article was based on the work of sociologists Neil Gross (U. British Colombia) and Ethan Fosse (a PhD candidate at Harvard, where Gross worked until recently), who propose that academic liberalism is due to typecasting, similar to how nursing is considered a "woman's job" by most Americans. The academic profession “has acquired such a strong reputation for … [Read more...] about Are Christian Professors Politically Conservative?
Evangelicalism
Week in Review: Big Questions Edition
Here's the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. In addition, if you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. The Big Questions: Have our colleges and universities lost sight of their purpose? (Jerry Pattengale, Books & Culture, November/December 2009) critiques Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Big Questions Edition
Evangelicalism’s First Rate Scholars
The glowing Chronicle of Higher Education review of Mark Noll's God and Race in American Politics: A Short History, see Martin E. Marty's God-Talk: Good, Bad, and Ugly, A new book on religion and race in politics should give us pause, places the recent Princeton University Press release on my American Religious Tradition shelf. I hope it does the same for you ;-) In his review, Martin E. Marty briefly comments on evangelical scholars: When I first began to write about religious history 50 years ago, … [Read more...] about Evangelicalism’s First Rate Scholars