{"id":92,"date":"2008-09-07T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:32","slug":"stouts-folly-of-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/09\/stouts-folly-of-secularism\/","title":{"rendered":"Stout&#8217;s Folly of Secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"Jeffrey Stout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stout5.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Stout\" width=\"132\" height=\"159\" \/>I&#8217;d like to share this little bit. It&#8217;s just about the only academic paper that has almost made me cry, and I don&#8217;t even quite know why; when I heard it delivered at last year&#8217;s American Academy of Religion meeting in San Diego, most of my friends there didn&#8217;t think much of it. I guess it speaks in a special way to my experience. And not just because Jeff Stout, who now teaches at Princeton, got his B.A. in the same religious studies department at Brown that I did. More: he is a nonbeliever who has a truly deep respect for religiosity. Not necessarily that he wants belief himself, and not the content-free fluff that usually passes for &#8220;respect&#8221; these days. The guy is for-real interested in living in a society with people that believe different things than he. Please enjoy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stout-folly_of_secularism.pdf\">The Folly of Secularism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also recommend his recent book, <em>Democracy and Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"Jeffrey Stout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stout5.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Stout\" width=\"132\" height=\"159\" \/>I&#8217;d like to share this little bit. It&#8217;s just about the only academic paper that has almost made me cry, and I don&#8217;t even quite know why; when I heard it delivered at last year&#8217;s American Academy of Religion meeting in San Diego, most of my friends there didn&#8217;t think much of it. I guess it speaks in a special way to my experience. And not just because Jeff Stout, who now teaches at Princeton, got his B.A. in the same religious studies department at Brown that I did. More: he is a nonbeliever who has a truly deep respect for religiosity. Not necessarily that he wants belief himself, and not the content-free fluff that usually passes for &#8220;respect&#8221; these days. The guy is for-real interested in living in a society with people that believe different things than he. Please enjoy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stout-folly_of_secularism.pdf\">The Folly of Secularism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also recommend his recent book, <em>Democracy and Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}