{"id":677,"date":"2018-05-07T19:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:20:36","slug":"religious-studies-program-sees-increase-non-religious-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2018\/05\/07\/religious-studies-program-sees-increase-non-religious-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious studies program sees increase in non-religious students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Community members call for increased recognition of different religions from university.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Among adults in Oregon, 68 percent of people identify as participants of a major religion, according to Pewforum\u2019s 2016 survey.<\/p>\n<p>Being a university that is home to both domestic and international students, as well as a religious studies degree, Oregon State University\u2019s student body represents a number of world religions, each with their own customs and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza Young Barstow, a history and religious studies instructor, has noticed an interest in religious studies among students at OSU, alongside an increase in non-religious identifying students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<p>http:\/\/www.orangemedianetwork.com\/daily_barometer\/religious-studies-program-sees-increase-in-non-religious-students\/article_a3abb9f4-5194-11e8-b44f-538593d7b6ff.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community members call for increased recognition of different religions from university. Among adults in Oregon, 68 percent of people identify as participants of a major religion, according to Pewforum\u2019s 2016 survey. Being a university that is home to both domestic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2018\/05\/07\/religious-studies-program-sees-increase-non-religious-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126504,126502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departmental-news","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}