{"id":12821,"date":"2020-06-03T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:01:04","slug":"chris-deacy-nostalgia-new-visibility-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/06\/03\/chris-deacy-nostalgia-new-visibility-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Deacy on &#8216;Nostalgia and the \u2018New Visibility\u2019 of Religion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has recently published an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/\">MDPI.com<\/a> titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/11\/5\/267\">&#8216;Nostalgia and the \u2018New Visibility\u2019 of Religion&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article examines the role that religion plays in a sample of the lives and career journeys of eight academic staff or alumni at a British university. Using Chris&#8217;s own, \u2018Nostalgia Interviews with Chris Deacy\u2019 podcast as source material, the aim is to look at the intersection between traditional and implicit conceptualisations of religion, that arise in the course of interviews that the author has undertaken, with a view to shedding light on what this says about the role that religion plays when people reminisce about their past, how this relates to contemporary religious experience for them, and whether this might be identified as an example of the \u2018new visibility\u2019 of religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has recently published an article on MDPI.com titled &#8216;Nostalgia and the \u2018New Visibility\u2019 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/06\/03\/chris-deacy-nostalgia-new-visibility-of-religion\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions\/12838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}