Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed, it is the opinion of the clergymen who work in the University community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...
...most of the basic questions concerning religious belief, there was little contrast between the men and women. There was nothing distinctive in the Radcliffe view of the nature of God, the role of organized religion, or the interpretation of scriptural statements...
...Harvard in their more marked devotion to religious practices, specifically individual prayer and attendance of religious services. Yet almost surprisingly, the girls are no more inclined than the men to "regard active connection with a church or synagogue as essential to religious life." Of those students who indicated some belief in divine presence, only 30 per cent at either college consider church connection necessary for a full religious life...
While most of the Harvard-Radcliffe differences occur in the areas of religious practice or of family life, rather than belief, there is a moderate divergence on the question of belief in immortality. Although an almost equal proportion believe in "the continued existence of the individual soul," fewer girls are ready to deny immortality. Only 16 girls answer an outright "no" to immortality for every 20 Harvard men who deny a belief...
...reject all belief in anything that could reasonably be called "god" and regard every such notion as a fiction unworthy of worship...