{"id":727,"date":"2018-05-22T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T09:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=727"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T09:39:05","slug":"727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Robertson appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/religiousstudiesproject.com\/podcast\/worldviews-and-ways-of-life\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/religiousstudiesproject.com');\">the Religious Studies Project<\/a> this week, interviewing Ann Taves of the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u00a0She\u00a0argues that we should study religions under the broader rubric of \u201cworldviews\u201d and \u201cways of life\u201d. This ambitious interdisciplinary project aims to place a micro-level analysis of individual worldviews into a broader evolutionary perspective. Through case-studies (including \u2018secular\u2019 worldviews like Alcoholics Anonymous alongside more traditional \u2018religions\u2019), she explains how worldviews form in response to existential \u2018Big Questions\u2019 \u2013 here understood as core biological needs and goals, rather than theological or moral concerns \u2013 and are enacted in Ways of Life, individually or collectively.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Worldviews and Ways of Life with Ann Taves\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-7Cf6bQH4oQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Robertson appeared on the Religious Studies Project this week, interviewing Ann Taves of the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u00a0She\u00a0argues that we should study religions under the broader rubric of \u201cworldviews\u201d and \u201cways of life\u201d. This ambitious interdisciplinary project aims to place a micro-level analysis of individual worldviews into a broader evolutionary perspective. Through case-studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[223,92,200,201,224,225],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-religion-in-historical-perspective-2","category-ideas","tag-ann-taves","tag-david-robertson","tag-interview","tag-religious-studies-project","tag-ways-of-life","tag-worldviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}