{"id":62140,"date":"2017-08-04T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62140"},"modified":"2017-08-04T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:12:12","slug":"arda-david-briggs-not-just-a-joke-studies-find-religious-humor-can-break-through-prejudice-build-social-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62140","title":{"rendered":"(ARDA) David Briggs&#8211;Not just a joke: Studies find religious humor can break through prejudice, build social ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jokes about religion should be left to the professionals, according to a comprehensive new study of religion and humor.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly four in five Norwegians said in a recent national study that it is OK for a comedian to make fun of religion.<\/p>\n<p>But the study findings also indicated others should exercise greater care about what they make fun of, and who they pick on:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tJust 24 percent said it is OK for politicians to make fun of religion.<br \/>\n\u2022\tLess than one in six said it is proper for teachers to tell religion jokes in the classroom.<br \/>\n\u2022\tAnd more than twice as many respondents said it is more problematic to make fun of Islamic symbols than it is to tell jokes about Christian symbols.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thearda.com\/trend\/uncategorized\/not-just-a-joke-studies-find-religious-humor-can-break-through-prejudice-build-social-ties\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jokes about religion should be left to the professionals, according to a comprehensive new study of religion and humor. Nearly four in five Norwegians said in a recent national study that it is OK for a comedian to make fun<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62140\">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":[194,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-trivia","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140","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=62140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62143,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions\/62143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}