{"id":7267,"date":"2017-04-14T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2017-04-13T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:29:17","slug":"lois-lee-in-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/14\/lois-lee-in-new-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lee in New Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=6948\">Understanding Unbelief<\/a> programme at Kent, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/lee.html\">Dr Lois Lee<\/a>, Research Fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, is the focus of one of the lead articles in this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/issue\/3121\/\"><em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a> magazine, dated 15 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>New Scientist<\/em> is a weekly magazine, established in 1956, to focus on all aspects of scientific research. It currently has over 100,000 readers.<\/p>\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018Faith of the Faithless: Is Atheism Just Another Religion\u2019 asks whether, if it is impossible to disprove the existence of God, then is atheism just another faith?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This idea turns up all the time, and it is very loaded,\u2019 Lois says in the article: \u2018When people say \u2018atheism is just another religion\u2019, they normally mean it in a pejorative way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The issue is currently available in newsagents, and is also available online (via a subscription) here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431212-800-faith-of-the-faithless-is-atheism-just-another-religion\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431212-800-faith-of-the-faithless-is-atheism-just-another-religion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Understanding Unbelief programme at Kent, led by Dr Lois Lee, Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies, is the focus of one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/14\/lois-lee-in-new-scientist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}