Schmalzbauer, J. 2003. People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
In this book, Schmalzbauer explores the professional and religious challenges that face social science professors and journalists who are also people of faith. Schmalzbauer interviewed twenty social scientists in the fields of history, political science, and sociology, and found that “Catholic and evangelical professionals clearly take their religious beliefs to work,” which casts doubt on the “depiction of the total marginalization of religion in public life.” Some of these religious professionals take a “middle-of-the-road” approach to their work, one that recognizes “both the importance of empirical inquiry and the role of religious and philosophical presuppositions in shaping that inquiry.” Others, meanwhile, undergo a balancing act of demonstrating their full commitment to their scholarly work while also justifying “the use of religious perspectives in their academic disciplines.”
