> Western academia has a bias towards defining religious institutions out of consideration as true academia. My alma mater offers a BA in Theology and Religion

> Western academia has a bias towards defining religious institutions out of consideration as true academia. My alma mater offers a BA in Theology and Religion: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/theology/theology/ https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/theolog... Oxford has a Faculty of Theology and Religion: https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/ https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/ Cambridge (the original one) has a Faculty of Divinity: https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/ https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/ Perhaps what you say is true of lesser institutions.