University of Oklahoma Sororities - Religious preferences?

[irishpipes]

Are you from Oklahoma? This is a very "bibley" part of the country. When I moved here I was taken aback by random strangers telling me to have a "blessed day" and things like that. So, OU is going to have a higher incidence of evangelical Christians than some other universities might. A lot of girls know each other from Young Life and Kanakuk and other Christian camps and activities. However, I know many, many sorority members and alumnae from OU, including my own younger sisters, and have never heard of required religious practice of any kind. My sisters are both Catholic and were never comfortable with the evangelical crowd, but they loved their sorority experience at OU and I don't know that religion was ever an issue.

(I do know of one chapter of my sorority in the SEC that attends church together. When our chapter consultant made an official visit, she was a bit uncomfortable since she is Jewish. That is the only chapter I have ever heard of doing that though. And even that chapter couldn't have had 100% participation in a Baptist church activity, since it is a chapter of over 200 members. No way they are all Baptists!)

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Are you from Oklahoma? This is a very "bibley" part of the country. When I moved here I was taken aback by random strangers telling me to have a "blessed day" and things like that. So, OU is going to have a higher incidence of evangelical Christians than some other universities might. A lot of girls know each other from Young Life and Kanakuk and other Christian camps and activities. However, I know many, many sorority members and alumnae from OU, including my own younger sisters, and have never heard of required religious practice of any kind. My sisters are both Catholic and were never comfortable with the evangelical crowd, but they loved their sorority experience at OU and I don't know that religion was ever an issue.

(I do know of one chapter of my sorority in the SEC that attends church together. When our chapter consultant made an official visit, she was a bit uncomfortable since she is Jewish. That is the only chapter I have ever heard of doing that though. And even that chapter couldn't have had 100% participation in a Baptist church activity, since it is a chapter of over 200 members. No way they are all Baptists!)

Heh, when I worked at OU, I constantly thought to myself "Wow, I never thought being a Roman Catholic would put me in the liberal faith..."

It was so very different from my incredibly mixed up mid-atlantic/british life.

Such beautiful houses and so different from what I knew as an active- I always wanted to play anthropologist and sit in the bushes writing field notes during rush week.