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Discussion of faith and religion has been a significant part of my teaching of writing and literature because these things have been central to the lives of the students, and humanistic study is interested in those experiences. It's the opposite of verboten.
Is this an Ivy League thing? I've spent most of my career in the South, teaching undergraduates (predominantly first-year students, even), and there's nothing weird about discussing these issues in context of class, even though I'm towards the left side of that chart.
Faith and belief are among the most fascinating subjects I can imagine, and teaching the humanities the thought that they might be excluded or verboten is just bizarre to me. If they're verboten, I've closed off a huge avenue of fruitful critical inquiry.
