The essays it contained were the product of a conference on the subject which brought together scholars of various Christian denominations, as well as a few non-believers. There has, in fact, been quite a lot of interest in the topic recently among historians, for instance. But even among Christians, including Catholics, there is a distinct unwillingness to let religious beliefs have influence in the realm of academia.
Universities are part of that phenomenon.
This is not an original observation. Many Christians, and presumably most Catholics of a Franciscan University stripe, deplore the situation. What is less well-appreciated are the historical and philosophical origins of the universities' banishment of religion. The problems of how the universities came to this state, and what to do about it, are subjects to which I have lately given some thought. Through three and a half years of graduate study I had not contemplated just what it was about my experience that was unsettling.