{"id":55700,"date":"2016-09-19T00:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_whats_us_religion_worth_1-2_trillion_says_one_demographer\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T00:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:41:54","slug":"rns_whats_us_religion_worth_1-2_trillion_says_one_demographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55700","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) What\u2019s US religion worth? $1.2 trillion, says one demographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is big bucks \u201d\u201d worth $1.2 trillion annually to the American economy, according to the first comprehensive study to tabulate such a figure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn perspective, that would make religion the 15th largest national economy in the world, ahead of 180 other countries in terms of value,\u201d\u009d said Georgetown University\u2019s Brian Grim, the study\u2019s author.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would also make American religion larger than the global revenues of the top 10 tech companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google,\u201d\u009d he continued. \u201cIt would also make it 50 percent larger than the six largest American oil companies\u2019 revenue on an annual basis.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/09\/14\/whats-us-religions-worth-1-2-trillion-says-one-demographer\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is big bucks \u201d\u201d worth $1.2 trillion annually to the American economy, according to the first comprehensive study to tabulate such a figure. \u201cIn perspective, that would make religion the 15th largest national economy in the world, ahead of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55700\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,209,149,154,155,184,108,109,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700","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=55700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}