[ He looks rather young for a professor, doesn't he? Like he ought to still be in schooling himself. Different worlds can have different societies, though, and he may simply seem young for his age. ]

It is interesting subject, yes? I was a member of the clergy within my society, in fact, though matters of religion was not my primary role within that organization. You define religion rather narrowly here, but the Gaian Church, formally known as the Hegemonic Church of All Gods and Mysteries, is a fundamental institution within the Gaian Hegemony, who concerns itself more with philosophy, academics, and the function of man as a political animal, than the do the administration of any particular brand of worship.

That said, the Church does loosely administer all cults within Hegemonic purview, and I've prayed and offered to a handful of deities from time to time. I'm not particularly pious, myself.