{"id":26005,"date":"2009-02-10T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/10\/american-religious-preference\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:10:43","slug":"american-religious-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/american-religious-preference\/","title":{"rendered":"American Religious Preference: Change over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the really useful features of the new edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/its_out_evolution_vs_creationi.php\">Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction<\/a> by Genie Scott is the coverage of the socio-cultural context of the so called &#8220;debate&#8221; between Creationists and Evolutionary Biologists.  This tidbit is an example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-18c70b96e4e8653a0492f2c1801a94dc-scott_american_religious_profiles_table.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-18c70b96e4e8653a0492f2c1801a94dc-scott_american_religious_profiles_table.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The obvious patterns are interesting.  There is a modest drop in overall religiousity over the last twenty years.  This drop is entirely acounted for by a drop in Christianity specifically.  And the biggest change overall (percentage wise, doing the figures in my head so this is subject to revision) is an increase in the &#8220;No religion&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>Note also that the &#8220;Refused to state&#8221; category fluctuates dramatically.  It is a small number so this may be spurious, but it is interesting.  What does that mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the really useful features of the new edition of Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction by Genie Scott is the coverage of the socio-cultural context of the so called &#8220;debate&#8221; between Creationists and Evolutionary Biologists. This tidbit is an example: The obvious patterns are interesting. There is a modest drop in overall religiousity over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/american-religious-preference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Religious Preference: Change over time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Lr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}