The Question is the Answer

The new millennium has seen a resurgence of interest in spirituality and religion among college students across the spectrum of American institutions of higher education. The Lilly Foundation has found that the fastest growing undergraduate major is religious studies. And yet this growing interest is not confined only to religion per se; it is also expressed in undergraduate interest in spirituality. In 2005, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA surveyed over 112,000 matriculating freshmen attending 236 diverse colleges and universities across the country, reporting this: