{"id":4697,"date":"2005-04-12T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T08:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2005-04-12T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T08:14:27","slug":"civic-advantages-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"civic advantages of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebooters.net\/\">Reboot <\/a>released a poll on young Americans&#8217; religiosity. My organization, CIRCLE, was a major funder of the survey, which contains numerous fascinating results. In my usual way, I refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbergresearch.com\/issues\/news.php\">the study itself <\/a>for the main findings; here I present some data that just happened to interest me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/reboot.GIF\"><\/p>\n<p>Pollster Anna Greenberg divided the full sample of 18-25-year old Americans into three groups: the Godly, the Godless, and the undecided middle. In almost all respects, the Godly are most likely to participate in civic life. They don&#8217;t only volunteer more and participate in more religious groups; they are also more likely to protest and to buy &#8220;green&#8221; products. However, levels of religious faith and attendance are much lower for today&#8217;s young Americans than for their predecessors. Therefore, it&#8217;s not surprising that rates of civic participation are lower (leaving aside school-based volunteering, which has increased).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a group called Reboot released a poll on young Americans&#8217; religiosity. My organization, CIRCLE, was a major funder of the survey, which contains numerous fascinating results. In my usual way, I refer you to the study itself for the main findings; here I present some data that just happened to interest me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}