{"id":40768,"date":"2011-05-17T22:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T06:42:20","slug":"make-money-first-then-find-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/17\/make-money-first-then-find-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Make money first, then find your church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has a weird article up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/15\/magazine\/is-your-religion-your-financial-destiny.html?_r=1\">Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny?<\/a>, which digests the <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewforum.org\/\">Pew Religious Landscape Survey<\/a> descriptive statistics on the demographics of American religious denominations. It&#8217;s kind of a strange piece\u00a0<strong>because the basic correlations have long been known.<\/strong> The traditional rank order in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_Register\">&#8220;Social Register&#8221;<\/a> way of looking at it would have been Episcopalian &gt; Presbyterian &gt; Methodist &gt; Baptist. The article itself is frankly kind of embarrassing in a 10th grade paper sort of way. For example, &#8220;That stands in contrast to the long history, made famous by Max Weber, of Protestant nations generally being richer than Catholic nations.&#8221; I think this sort of fact should be introduced very carefully to the general audience. One can posit plausible explanations for why staunchly Catholic Bavaria is one of Germany&#8217;s most affluent states, or why it is that Protestantism is much more popular among lower class Chileans, and still maintain a Webberian model, but that obviously isn&#8217;t possible in a newspaper article. But these realities are often totally surprising to people who aren&#8217;t too &#8220;information rich,&#8221; but who have heard of Webber&#8217;s thesis at some point. And let&#8217;s not get into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a weird article up, Is Your Religion Your Financial Destiny?, which digests the Pew Religious Landscape Survey descriptive statistics on the demographics of American religious denominations. It&#8217;s kind of a strange piece\u00a0be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gss","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40884,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768\/revisions\/40884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}