{"id":993,"date":"2012-05-18T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=993"},"modified":"2012-05-18T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:07:25","slug":"new-to-me-online-african-american-atheism-and-religious-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2012\/05\/18\/new-to-me-online-african-american-atheism-and-religious-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"New to Me, Online: African American Atheism and Religious Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve written and done research on atheism and black America, I&#8217;ve never put the two together. This <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5911224\/our-fathers-not-in-heaven-the-new-black-atheism\">Gawker post<\/a>\u00a0by Cord Jefferson (editor of <em>Good Magazine<\/em>),\u00a0brought to my attention by the fabulous Letta Page, does.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had a chance to think it all through yet, but am curious what others think, both about the basic phenomenon as well as about its broader social and theoretical implications.<\/p>\n<p>And on that score, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/scott-atran\/religion-human-conflict_b_1526177.html\">Huffington Post piece <\/a>on religion, in-group trust, and out-group distrust. It is by Scott Atran, who is, as my colleague and collaborator Penny Edgell says, &#8220;one of the most thoughtful scholars working at the intersection of religion and evolutionary theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve written and done research on atheism and black America, I&#8217;ve never put the two together. This Gawker post\u00a0by Cord Jefferson (editor of Good Magazine),\u00a0brought to my attention by the fabulous Letta Page, does. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to think it all through yet, but am curious what others think, both about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,42],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-race","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}