{"id":26174,"date":"2011-05-14T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religious_belief_is_human_nature_huge_new_study_claims\/"},"modified":"2011-05-14T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T23:50:11","slug":"religious_belief_is_human_nature_huge_new_study_claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26174","title":{"rendered":"Religious belief is human nature, huge new study claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a massive new study of cultures all around the world suggests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tend to see purpose in the world,&#8221; Oxford University professor Roger Trigg said Thursday. &#8220;We see agency. We think that something is there even if you can&#8217;t see it. &#8230; All this tends to build up to a religious way of thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trigg is co-director of the three-year Oxford-based project, which incorporated more than 40 different studies by dozens of researchers looking at countries from China to Poland and the United States to Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/12\/religious-belief-is-human-nature-huge-new-study-claims\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a massive new study of cultures all around the world suggests. &#8220;We tend to see purpose in the world,&#8221; Oxford University professor Roger Trigg said Thursday. &#8220;We see agency. We think that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26174\">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":[39,175,119,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174","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=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}