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Article: The American University in a Postsecular Age.(Book review)
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- November 14, 2008
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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN A POSTSECULAR AGE
Edited by Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Oxford University Press, 67 pages, $35
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In describing his experience as a Catholic undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s, John J. DiIulio Jr. writes, "It was not uncommon for faculty in certain, classes to take gratuitous swipes at religious believers. 'If you still believe in God,' my behavioral psychology professor bellowed in his introductory lecture, 'you will feel very uncomfortable in this course. This is science!'"
DiIulio's essay, " Level Playing Field for Religion in Higher ...