{"id":8064,"date":"2017-11-03T15:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:00:56","slug":"lois-lee-in-the-church-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/03\/lois-lee-in-the-church-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lee in The Church Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understanding-unbelief.net\">Understanding Unbelief<\/a> research programme, has contributed to the latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\"><em>The Church Times<\/em><\/a>, dated 3 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Church Times <\/em>is an independent Anglican newspaper, produced in London.<\/p>\n<p>Lois\u2019s piece, entitled \u2018Take the Beliefs of the Non-religious Seriously\u2019, and argues that non-religious belief should be more seriously understood. Although 51% of the British population identify as non-religious, this hides some differences within that population.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The current approach makes a category error when it asks whether people belong to one of several religious traditions, or are not religious at all, and then compares these groups,\u2019 \u2019 explains Lois in the article. \u2018This pits people who have a specific religious identity (C of E, Roman Catholic, Muslim, etc.) against those who opt for a generic and composite one (the \u201cnot religious\u201d).\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Were it to take the transcendent beliefs and world-views of non-religious people seriously, the picture would look quite different.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available online here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/3-november\/comment\/opinion\/take-the-beliefs-of-the-non-religious-seriously\">www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/3-november\/comment\/opinion\/take-the-beliefs-of-the-non-religious-seriously<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lois Lee, Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Understanding Unbelief research programme, has contributed to the latest issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/03\/lois-lee-in-the-church-times\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6953,"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\/8064"}],"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=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}