Article September 2, 1967 Issue

Signs of the Times

Gary G. Gerlach

The National Observer

Gary G. Gerlach in The National Observer Washington, District of Columbia

Religion was once a course that every self-respecting college undergraduate avoided. ... Now, in dozens of colleges and universities, the religion department is where the action is. ...

"Obviously times have changed," says Prof. Robert S. Michaelsen, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California's Santa Barbara branch, an ordained Methodist, a Yale Ph.D., and a man well in tune with the trend. Professor Michaelsen recalls "the dark ages" of the Depression when a clerical collar evoked "a polite or scornful yawn" and theology was regarded as "strictly anachronistic."

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