There is a working paper out which reports on the nature of the religiousness of the professoriate. Some data of interest.... * Proportion of professors with "No religion" - 31% (vs. ~10% for the general public) "I don't believe in God" - 10% (vs. 2.8% for the general public) "I don't know whether there is a God, and I don't believe there is a way to find out" - 13.4% (vs. 4.1% for the general public) "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" - 19.6% "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" - 4.4% "While I have my doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" - 16.9% "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it" - 35.7% Proportion of "atheists and agnostics" (first two categories above) ...
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