Abstract

Religion on the Campus. Search for Security

Today's undergraduates are more interested in religion than college students have been for twenty years at least. That statement is confirmed by reports from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, New York University and others, including some 100 colleges and universities across the U.S., visited by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S. American college life is vast and complex, and there will be exceptions to any generalizations. Nevertheless the generalizations are useful as indicating trends in those institutions which, after all, are ideally searchers for truth--the citadels of thought and ideas that radiate their influence into the nation as a whole, despite the anti-intellectualism seen in some quarters.