Wednesday, 05 August 2009

• Your college major choice could affect your religion

  A recent study conducted by University of Michigan Institute for Social Research concluded that a college student’s religiosity is affected by his college major choice. The researches who conducted the research believe that postmodernism is a greater antagonist of religiosity then science. Interestingly, majoring in Humanities or Social Sciences had a significant negative effect on religious attendance and importance by those who participated in the study.

   

  

   

  The authors of the study believe that religions have had time to develop a resistance to scientific ideas, such as, evolution. Postmodernism is more recent and therefore, religions have not been able to develop a resistance to its ideas yet.

   

  Do you think college major choice affects your views toward religion? Is postmodernism a threat to religion as the authors of the study stated?

   

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