{"id":10129,"date":"2011-12-26T19:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:58:46","slug":"atheists-embracing-faith-for-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/atheists-embracing-faith-for-their-kids","title":{"rendered":"Atheists embracing faith for their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith and family are so tightly linked in American society that &#8220;even some of society&#8217;s least religious people find religion to be important in their private lives,&#8221; says researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund from Rice University.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10340\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/Ecklund1-e1323997175356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10340\" title=\"Ecklund(1)\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/Ecklund1-e1323997175356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"670\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecklund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite their personal non-belief, reports the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/society-culture\/some-atheists-embrace-religion-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Futurity,<\/a> a surprising number of atheist scientist parents told Ecklund that they often participate in religious traditions for their kids&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through in-depth interviews with scientists at elite academic institutions &#8212;\u00a0those particularly likely to have no firm belief in God,&#8221;\u00a0reads the abstract of Ecklund&#8217;s report, published in the<em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1468-5906.2011.01604.x\/full\" target=\"_blank\"> Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,<\/a><\/em> &#8220;we provide insight into the motives scientists who are not religious have for joining a religious group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/Articles\/Home-Page-News-and-Views\/Atheists-taking-their-kids-to-church.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK to read story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith and family are so tightly linked in American society that &#8220;even some of society&#8217;s least religious people find religion to be important in their private lives,&#8221; says researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund from Rice University. 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