{"id":22483,"date":"2010-10-21T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_study_more_link_christian_faith_to_being_american\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:31:04","slug":"rns_study_more_link_christian_faith_to_being_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22483","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Study: More link Christian faith to being American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. has grown more diverse, more Americans believe that being a Christian is a key aspect of being &#8220;truly American,&#8221; researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue University scholars found that between 1996 and 2004, Americans who saw Christian identity as a &#8220;very important&#8221; attribute of being American increased from 38 percent to 49 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars said the findings, published in the fall issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, couldn&#8217;t be definitively tied to a particular event but they suspect the 9\/11 attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could have played a role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/RNS-Study-More-link-Christian-faith-to-being-American.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. has grown more diverse, more Americans believe that being a Christian is a key aspect of being &#8220;truly American,&#8221; researchers say. Purdue University scholars found that between 1996 and 2004, Americans who saw Christian identity as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22483\">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":[39,50,209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483","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=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}