{"id":36502,"date":"2012-12-30T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_haynes-the_rise_of_a_new_religious_america\/"},"modified":"2012-12-30T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T22:15:14","slug":"charles_haynes-the_rise_of_a_new_religious_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36502","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Charles Haynes&#8211;The rise of a New Religious America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Hindu elected to the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, will take the oath of office in a few weeks \u201d\u201c and she has chosen to place her hand on the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of her tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the woman she replaces in Congress, Mazie Hirono, will be sworn in as the first Buddhist elected to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new religious America.<\/p>\n<p>Religious diversity, of course, has long been part of the American landscape. But in 2012, religious minorities became newly visible and vocal in a society historically dominated by the symbols, values and leaders of the Protestant faith&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/the-rise-of-a-new-religious-america\/2012\/12\/28\/24cc7a8a-5120-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_blog.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Hindu elected to the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, will take the oath of office in a few weeks \u201d\u201c and she has chosen to place her hand on the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36502\">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":[39,50,209,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502","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=36502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}