{"id":1812,"date":"2013-11-05T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:47:56","slug":"jessica-frazier-on-the-hindu-swastika-on-the-bbc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/11\/05\/jessica-frazier-on-the-hindu-swastika-on-the-bbc1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Frazier on the Hindu swastika on BBC1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jessica Frazier from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a> was interviewed on the BBC1 on Sunday, for the documentary <i>The Story of the Swastika.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For many, the swastika has become a symbol synonymous with the Nazis and fascism. But the BBC programme reveals the fascinating and complex history of an emblem that is, in fact, a religious symbol, with a sacred past.<\/p>\n<p>For the almost one billion Hindus around the world, the swastika lies at the heart of religious practices and beliefs, as an emblem of benevolence, luck and good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is currently on iPlayer, available until Sunday 10 November:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b03h8rt2\/The_Story_of_the_Swastika\/\">www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b03h8rt2\/The_Story_of_the_Swastika\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jessica Frazier from the Department of Religious Studies was interviewed on the BBC1 on Sunday, for the documentary The Story of the Swastika. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/11\/05\/jessica-frazier-on-the-hindu-swastika-on-the-bbc1\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1815,"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\/1812"}],"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\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/8199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}