The Episcopal Cafe asks: More education = less religion? It points to a study of Canadian religiosity by Notre Dame economist Daniel Hagerman mentioned on Freakonomics.

But perhaps it’s not just higher education, but what one majors in. Rosalynde Welch concludes from another study that Humanities and Social Science majors are less likely to be religious after graduating than Science majors. She blames it on postmodernism, the encounter with pluralism, and methodological doubt. Of course, as one commenter on the Episcopal Cafe thread pointed out, members of the Episcopal Church are much more likely to have college and graduate education than the wider public, including the wider religious public.