{"id":13468,"date":"2020-10-26T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:02:57","slug":"oxford-university-hinduism-and-narnia-nostalgia-interview-with-jessica-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/10\/26\/oxford-university-hinduism-and-narnia-nostalgia-interview-with-jessica-frazier\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University, Hinduism and Narnia: Nostalgia interview with Jessica Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7713530-jessica-frazier\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, interviews Jessica Frazier, former University of Kent member of staff and current Lecturer in Theology and Religion for the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica was born in Washington D.C. and came to England when a child. Jessica reveals how she fantasized about going to Narnia as a kid, and we learn about the appeal of Thailand where it is always summer \u2013 indeed, a portal into something magical.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica also talks about teaching Hinduism at Oxford, how she wanted to be an explorer growing up, why she has become more of a Platonist as she gets older, why she has never been frightened of solitude, and how it is okay to be a nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the Department of Religious Studies, interviews Jessica Frazier, former University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/10\/26\/oxford-university-hinduism-and-narnia-nostalgia-interview-with-jessica-frazier\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":13473,"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\/13468"}],"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=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/13479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}