Religion in the Classroom
Joel Carpenter, Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College
The Teagle Foundation online
June 19, 2007

We live in religiously expressive times. For many professors, encountering the religiosity of our day in the classroom can be a rude shock. At one of the meetings of Martin Marty's "Fundamentalisms" research project twenty years ago we were discussing the growing presence of religiously minded students and professors. One veteran chemistry professor was particularly agitated: "This is horrible. I came to the university to be rid of all this religious nonsense." The university, for him, was a place of comfort and conviviality as a "religion free" zone.

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