{"id":59939,"date":"2017-05-15T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59939"},"modified":"2017-05-15T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:50:33","slug":"telegraph-a-recent-survey-shows-that-the-decline-of-anglicanism-in-england-may-be-slowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59939","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) A recent survey shows that the decline of Anglicanism in England may be slowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Stephen Bullivant said that the growth in non-religious people has slowed and Anglicanism has seen a small uptick since 2013. <\/p>\n<p>The professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary&#8217;s University in Twickenham said that the church was recovering after losing a lot of believers after the publication of Richard Dawkins&#8217; The God Delusion in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>He also said that a rise in patriotism might be linked to greater pride in Christianity among some groups. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People see Christianity as an expression of Englishness. There has been more rhetoric around Britain being a Christian nation&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/13\/anglican-church-congregation-numbers-have-stabilised\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Stephen Bullivant said that the growth in non-religious people has slowed and Anglicanism has seen a small uptick since 2013. The professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary&#8217;s University in Twickenham said that the church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59939\">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":[389,199,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59939","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=59939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59941,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59939\/revisions\/59941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}