{"id":91,"date":"2011-03-24T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/the-scientific-study-of-secularism\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:00:51","slug":"the-scientific-study-of-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/24\/the-scientific-study-of-secularism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientific Study of Secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\">Interview with <strong>Barry Kosmin<\/strong> in\u00a0<em>Point of Inquiry <\/em>(Dec. 1, 2006).<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/files\/2011\/03\/point-of-inq.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/files\/2011\/03\/point-of-inq-300x65.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\">In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, he details the scientific study of religion and secularism, the \u201csecularization hypothesis,\u201d religious diversity in contemporary America, and the rise of the nonreligious in recent years. He also explores the relationship between science and secularism.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\"><strong>Barry Kosmin<\/strong> is <em>Research Professor in the Public Policy &amp; Law Program at Trinity College and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/barry_kosmin_the_scientific_study_of_secularism\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN (Links to outside resource)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Barry Kosmin in\u00a0Point of Inquiry (Dec. 1, 2006). In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, he details the scientific study of religion and secularism, the \u201csecularization hypothesis,\u201d religious diversity in contemporary America, and the rise of the nonreligious in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/24\/the-scientific-study-of-secularism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28,33,8],"tags":[41,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}