> How many professors are conservative or openly religious?
At German universities the answer is actually "quite a number of professors", and being conservative or religious is just as normal and accepted as being on the progressive side.
The major difference, however, is that Conservatism there (fortunately) is still very pro-science and you won't find many climate change deniers, creationists, anti-vaxxers, etc. among conservatives, especially not among educated conservatives. Overall, society is also much less scarred by years and years of relentless culture wars, and the majority of the population clusters in the middle of the political spectrum (i.e., in the range "moderate conservative" to "moderate progressive").
In the US, there seems to have been a vicious circle going on for a long time now with conservatives becoming more and more anti-science, because they perceive universities and most scientists as leftists; and scientists becoming more and more hostile to conservatives, because they perceive them to be waging a war on science. I don't know what started this arms race (i.e., whether universities in the US first became hostile to conservatives, or whether conservatives first turned anti-science), but I find this development incredibly depressing and heartbreaking.
At German universities the answer is actually "quite a number of professors", and being conservative or religious is just as normal and accepted as being on the progressive side.
The major difference, however, is that Conservatism there (fortunately) is still very pro-science and you won't find many climate change deniers, creationists, anti-vaxxers, etc. among conservatives, especially not among educated conservatives. Overall, society is also much less scarred by years and years of relentless culture wars, and the majority of the population clusters in the middle of the political spectrum (i.e., in the range "moderate conservative" to "moderate progressive").
In the US, there seems to have been a vicious circle going on for a long time now with conservatives becoming more and more anti-science, because they perceive universities and most scientists as leftists; and scientists becoming more and more hostile to conservatives, because they perceive them to be waging a war on science. I don't know what started this arms race (i.e., whether universities in the US first became hostile to conservatives, or whether conservatives first turned anti-science), but I find this development incredibly depressing and heartbreaking.