In every corner of our public world, we find people arguing about, mobilizing, and developing politics around things theological. Theology is as much part of world we share as race, sexuality, money, art, and literature—if we aren’t studying it in the public universities, then we are ignoring a mountain in the middle of our political and cultural landscape. And I’d argue that the public university is in a unique position to transform our by-now predictable yet intractable conflicts about religion and secular life.
So why don’t we teach theology alongside history, political science, or math?
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