Faith and Diversity in American Religion

By ALAN WOLFE

One would be hard pressed to find a private college or university in the United States that cannot trace its founding to a religious denomination. One would be equally hard pressed, at least as far as America's elite universities are concerned, to find one that would identify faith as central to its current approaches to teaching, research, and student life. That is to say: No aspect of life is considered so important to Americans outside higher education, yet deemed so unimportant by the