{"id":215,"date":"2016-08-22T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=215"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:26:34","slug":"connor-wood","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/profile\/connor-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison before traveling for a few years and working as an editor in Minneapolis. When looking for good grad programs, I thought about getting an MFA in writing until I realized that I already knew how to write, and what I needed was to gain knowledge about what I should write ABOUT. The best answer turned out to be religion \u2013 specifically, the relationship between religion and science. And so I came to STH to earn an MTS, followed up by a PhD here at BU. Today, I do research on the evolutionary origins and functions of ritual, as well as cognitive styles, left-right ideology, and the religion-science dialog. But I didn&#8217;t abandon writing \u2013 I write a popular blog on the scientific study of religion at Patheos.com and am working on several longer works.<\/p>\n<h5>Location: Boston, MA<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}