{"id":64345,"date":"2017-10-12T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64345"},"modified":"2017-10-12T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:27:25","slug":"telegraph-neil-macgregor-why-britain-stands-alone-when-it-comes-to-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64345","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Neil MacGregor: why Britain stands alone when it comes to religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion provides a \u201cnarrative\u201d that explains our place in the world, [Neil] MacGregor said, and it is the rituals that bind people together.<\/p>\n<p>Its decline is \u201ca striking phenomenon across Western Europe\u201d and nowhere more so than Britain, where Christianity has been on the wane for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a sense, we are a very unusual society. <strong>We are trying to do something that no society has really done. We are trying to live without an agreed narrative of our communal place in the cosmos and in time<\/strong>,\u201d MacGregor said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/neil-macgregor-britain-stands-alone-comes-religi1on\/\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion provides a \u201cnarrative\u201d that explains our place in the world, [Neil] MacGregor said, and it is the rituals that bind people together. Its decline is \u201ca striking phenomenon across Western Europe\u201d and nowhere more so than Britain, where Christianity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64345\">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":[199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345","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=64345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64347,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions\/64347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}