{"id":7692,"date":"2010-10-09T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2010-10-10T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:45:42","slug":"i-think-it-might-be-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I think it might be a crisis&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I were talking about the ongoing trend of civic disengagement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it might be a crisis,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>I think she&#8217;s right. There are fewer people than ever before who understand how to be good institutionalists. Most people don&#8217;t belong to more than one or two voluntary associations. There are many people who spend all their non-work hours doing nothing more than passively consuming entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that civic disengagement has an adverse effect on democracy. But in a democracy, where religious organizations are voluntary associations, civic disengagement also has an adverse effect on organized religion. I&#8217;d be willing to say that of all the social factors that are pushing organized religion into decline, civic disengagement may be the most powerful such force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I were talking about the ongoing trend of civic disengagement. &#8220;I think it might be a crisis,&#8221; she said. I think she&#8217;s right. There are fewer people than ever before who understand how to be good institutionalists. Most people don&#8217;t belong to more than one or two voluntary associations. There are many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,309,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","category-political-culture","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7694,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}