{"id":855,"date":"2004-04-18T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/religion-by-major\/"},"modified":"2004-04-18T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T23:30:24","slug":"religion-by-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/religion-by-major","title":{"rendered":"Religion By&nbsp;Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/8448457.htm?1c\">the  results<\/a> (or see some detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/8448458.htm?1c\">data<\/a>) of a <i>national survey of 3,680 students by UCLA\u2019s Higher Education Research Institute [which] found that religious commitment runs strongest among fine arts, education and humanities majors and lowest among biology, history and sociology majors.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I found one excerpt fascinating: <i>In addition, Astin found that arts and humanities majors were twice as likely to exhibit signs of \u201cspiritual distress\u201d  questioning beliefs, struggling to understand evil, wrestling with religious upbringing  as business or computer science students.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Still, Astin said it is premature to label all scientists or computer whizzes as spiritually hollow. Most of these academic disciplines simply don\u2019t prompt or promote spiritual reflection, he&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p>Implicit in there is the notion that students who don\u2019t exhibit signs of \u201cspiritual distress\u201d can be supposed to be \u201cspiritually hollow\u201d. Interesting. I wonder how much of that is Astin\u2019s real perspectve and how much of that is the byproduct of the interviewer\u2019s line of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: <i>Students who party frequently are more likely to stop attending religious services, and \u201cspiritually committed\u201d students generally earn higher grades.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Students who score high on measures of spiritual commitment generally are healthier, happier and more involved in community service.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmagblog.com\/archives\/003267.html\">World Magazine blog<\/a> for unearthing this&nbsp;link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the results (or see some detailed data) of a national survey of 3,680 students by UCLA\u2019s Higher Education Research Institute [which] found that religious commitment runs strongest among fine arts, education and humanities majors and lowest among biology, history and sociology majors. I found one excerpt fascinating: In addition, Astin found that arts \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/religion-by-major\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cReligion By&nbsp;Major\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}