36. Has Secularization Made Universities Freer? | Molly Worthen
Has the decline of religion in American higher education produced greater intellectual freedom—or simply replaced one set of orthodoxies with another?
Historian Molly Worthen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joins Beth L’Arrivée on Tocqueville Talks to explore the relationship between Christianity, higher education, political polarization, and the search for meaning in modern America.
Beginning with Furman University's separation from its Baptist roots, Worthen examines the transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, the tensions between religious identity and…
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