Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the cause of this phenomenon, especially marked along the "middle-of-the-road" Protestants, such as Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, or Presbyterians? For in this group nearly 40 per cent of the students covered by the CRIMSON poll apostasized. Raised in the Protestant tradition, they have since denied their former affiliation; some even deny the existence...
Liberality in doctrinal interpretation is well illustrated by the canon of immortality Nearly every one of the 68 Protestant denominations in this country preaches external existence, but only 31.5 per cent of the Harvard Protestants accept this doctrine. On the other hand, nearly 75 per cent of the Harvard Catholics polled living in the same pragmatic, rational atmosphere retain their belief in immortality...
...leads, as many ministers point out, to a type of humanism--Christian sentiment not necessarily entailing belief in God or organized religion. This feeling, most evident among those who attend church infrequently, results from the leaven of the pragmatic, liberal Harvard education intensifying pre-existent doubts. Doubting, for 55 per cent of Harvard Protestants, started in secondary school. Under the influence of the College atmosphere doubting grows into agnosticism or into humanism. "I personally feel this humanism is much better than drabby churchiosity," a very prominent minister commented...
Attendance at Sunday morning services does not accurately indicate the extent of religious interest among Harvard Protestants. Only 29 per cent of them attend church weekly, and a mere 20 per cent deemed "active connection" with a denomination essential to religious life. "One can be religious without organized religion," according to one minister...
...increased concern. The "organizational" aspect of Protestantism has suffered greatly under the surge of religious renewal. Students simply have little interest in the "speaker-games-refreshments" routine of many Sunday evening groups, scoring such undertakings as "trivial," "mundane," "unworthy of a religious person's interest." Slightly over six per cent of the Protestants covered by the CRIMSON poll participated regularly in fellowship activities...