{"id":15795,"date":"2009-10-28T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/globally_religion_defies_easily_identified_patterns\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:33:19","slug":"globally_religion_defies_easily_identified_patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15795","title":{"rendered":"Globally, Religion Defies Easily Identified Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is growing more religious. Or maybe it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>On [last] Friday, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago released what it described as \u201cthe most comprehensive analysis to date of global religious trends.\u201d\u009d Anyone studying its 9,000-word analysis and perusing 330 additional pages of references and tables will be quickly disabused of the idea that the currents of religious belief and practice are flowing in one or two or even a half-dozen clear directions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious change around the world is a complex phenomenon,\u201d\u009d the report begins, in an almost comic understatement. \u201cNo simple description such as secularization, religious revival, or believing without belonging captures the complexity of the process.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/24\/us\/24beliefs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is growing more religious. Or maybe it\u2019s not. On [last] Friday, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago released what it described as \u201cthe most comprehensive analysis to date of global religious trends.\u201d\u009d Anyone studying<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15795\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,200,119,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-europe","category-globalization","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}