{"id":485037,"date":"2018-06-11T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c795e323d6cd841bb175bb0079365dc7"},"modified":"2018-06-11T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T12:50:27","slug":"religion-is-uniquely-human-but-computer-simulations-may-help-us-understand-religious-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=485037","title":{"rendered":"Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When disaster strikes, people often turn to religion for comfort and support. A powerful recent example of this comes from a study called &#8220;Faith after an Earthquake,&#8221; by prominent New Zealand religion and society researchers Chris Sibley and Joseph Bulbulia. They document an uptick in religious service attendance in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, after a large and deadly earthquake in early 2011 \u2013 even as New Zealanders as a whole went to church less. Eventually, though, things reverted to the way they had been, with religion in decline even in Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When disaster strikes, people often turn to religion for comfort and support. A powerful recent example of this comes from a study called &#8220;Faith after an Earthquake,&#8221; by prominent New Zealand religion and society researchers Chris Sibley and Joseph Bulbulia. They document an uptick in religious service attendance in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, after a large and deadly earthquake in early 2011 &ndash; even as New Zealanders as a whole went to church less. Eventually, though, things reverted to the way they had been, with religion in decline even in Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485038,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485037\/revisions\/485038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}