{"id":27663,"date":"2011-08-05T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_study_education_liberalizes_religious_views\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:50:56","slug":"usa_today_study_education_liberalizes_religious_views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27663","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Study: Education liberalizes religious views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year of education ups the odds by 15% that people will say there&#8217;s &#8220;truth in more than one religion,&#8221; says University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Philip Schwadel in an article for the Review of Religious Research. Schwadel, an associate professor of sociology, looked at 1,800 U.S. adults&#8217; reported religious beliefs and practices and their education.<\/p>\n<p>People change their perspective because, as people move through high school and college, they acquire an ever-wider range of friendships, including people with different beliefs than their own, Schwadel says. &#8220;People don&#8217;t want to say their friends are going to hell,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-08-03-education-religion_n.htm?csp=34news\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year of education ups the odds by 15% that people will say there&#8217;s &#8220;truth in more than one religion,&#8221; says University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Philip Schwadel in an article for the Review of Religious Research. Schwadel, an associate professor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27663\">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":[39,111,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663","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=27663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}