{"id":58,"date":"2011-03-02T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/the-freethinkers-in-a-free-market-of-religion\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:31:10","slug":"the-freethinkers-in-a-free-market-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/the-freethinkers-in-a-free-market-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freethinkers in a Free Market of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ariela Keysar,\u00a0Associate director of the Institute for the Study of\u00a0Secularism in Society and Culture and associate research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College\u00a0&amp; Barry A. Kosmin, Founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College<\/p>\n<p>Secularity, like religion, takes many forms in American society. Also like religion, it varies in intensity along the trajectories of what are often referred to as the \u201cThree B\u2019s,\u201d belonging, belief, and behavior. Our recently published book, Religion in a Free Market, shows that the American public does not subscribe to a binary system\u2014religion or secularity. Our research found self-identifying\u00a0Catholics and Lutherans who say they don\u2019t believe in God, Mormons who claim a secular outlook, and religious people who, despite their religiosity, are comfortably married to people of other faiths or no faith at all.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View The Freethinkers in a Free Market of Religion on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17374885\/The-Freethinkers-in-a-Free-Market-of-Religion\">The Freethinkers in a Free Market of Religion<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17374885&amp;access_key=key-1mhf979z2uaanus896fn&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_8648\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17374885&amp;access_key=key-1mhf979z2uaanus896fn&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ariela Keysar,\u00a0Associate director of the Institute for the Study of\u00a0Secularism in Society and Culture and associate research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College\u00a0&amp; Barry A. Kosmin, Founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/the-freethinkers-in-a-free-market-of-religion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,31,33,37],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}