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...Task Force on General Education merely considers religion an important facet of the world that “Harvard’s graduates will confront in their lives both in and after college” and wants to help students “understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” Under the proposed requirement, students will presumably study the influence of religion in historical, scientific, and political contexts, and not theistic doctrine itself...
...public. King said that professors, who frequently engage in intellectual thought, would be more likely to question their own faith. Such questioning leads to defining themselves by those terms, she said. Others were surprised that professors are so faith-based. “Harvard has a reputation for liberal, secular professors” said President of the Harvard Secular Society Amanda L. Shapiro ’08. Shapiro, a sociology concentrator, added that most of her professors have presented religion in a way that “seemed pretty objective.” Gross said he could not compare...
...civil connectedness, said that although civic involvement is thought to be greater in Britain, the program’s findings may prove otherwise. Differences in religiosity and immigration patterns have not yet been studied in depth, he said. “Certainly Britain is far more secular than the U.S.—the U.S. is an anomaly as far as developed countries are concerned in terms of our religiosity,” he said. The new initiative will also involve Zukerman Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters. Waters and Putnam will lead a summer program at Manchester focusing...
...requirement that all students take a course focusing on the interplay between reason and faith—whether in wars of religion or debates over stem cell research—is unique among Harvard’s secular peer institutions. Columbia, which requires students to read parts of the Bible and Koran in its great books program, comes closest...
...Reason and Faith” explores the interaction between religious and secular institutions...