{"id":7919,"date":"2016-04-22T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2016-04-22T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:31:09","slug":"religion-watch-available-online-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7919","title":{"rendered":"“Religion Watch” Available Online, Open Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am putting in a plug for Religion Watch <\/em><\/a>(slogan: “Looking beyond the walls of churches, synagogues and denominational officialdom to examine how religion really affects, and is affected by, the wider society”), published at Baylor University<\/a> and a good source for scholars of contemporary religion.<\/p>\n

The current issue leads with a short article, “Religion goes undercover as publishers seek to reach the ‘nones’<\/a>“, with this intriguing sentence: “There is also the trend of targeting the ‘dones,’ those who have left their faiths, often with autobiographical accounts of leaving and then rediscovering spirituality and religion.”<\/p>\n

Will we see “post-Pagan” memoirs in that vein?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am putting in a plug for Religion Watch (slogan: “Looking beyond the walls of churches, synagogues and denominational officialdom to examine how religion really affects, and is affected by, the wider society”), published at Baylor University and a good source for scholars of contemporary religion. The current issue leads with a short article, “Religion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-23J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":380,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=380","url_meta":{"origin":7919,"position":0},"title":"Religion being made An interesting\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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(At least the Sun is stronger now than in midwinter.) Today's preoccupation is the talk that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1189,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1189","url_meta":{"origin":7919,"position":3},"title":"Pagan Content on Patheos: John Muir was Pagan??","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"USA Today's religion blogger, Cathy Lynn Gross, visits the Patheos religion web site and discovers (shock!) that it has a Pagan portal with actual Pagan content.The article that catches her attention is \"John Muir was a Pagan.\"I admire John Muir, but I do not see him as a capital-P Pagan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":796,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=796","url_meta":{"origin":7919,"position":4},"title":"Greek Pagans Press for Temple Access","author":"Chas S. 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