{"id":6361,"date":"2017-01-13T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/13\/religion-and-the-european-union\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:40:46","slug":"religion-and-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/religion-and-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their book, <em>Religion and the Struggle for European Union<\/em>, Furman political scientists Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen examine the role religion still plays on the continent, especially as it concerns support for or opposition to the European Union. In a lengthy interview with <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2017\/01\/12\/protestants-dont-like-the-european-union-compared-to-catholics-this-is-why\/?utm_term=.e42ca737d402&amp;wpisrc=nl_cage&amp;wpmm=1\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the two professors explain why Catholics tend to favor European integration and Protestants tend to resist it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their book, Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Furman political scientists Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen examine the role religion still plays on the continent, especially as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}