{"id":1924,"date":"2013-12-04T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:48:13","slug":"jessica-frazier-discusses-hindu-creation-on-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/04\/jessica-frazier-discusses-hindu-creation-on-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Frazier discusses Hindu creation on Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jessica Frazier from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a> will be a guest on Thursday&#8217;s edition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qykl\"><i>In Our Time<\/i><\/a>\u00a0on Radio 4, a live BBC\u00a0 discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica will be engaging in discussion with Professor\u00a0Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University) and Professor\u00a0Gavin Flood (University of Oxford) about the\u00a0Hindu ideas of Creation.<\/p>\n<p>According to most Western religious traditions, a deity was the original creator of the Universe. Hinduism, on the other hand, has no single creation story. For over a thousand years, Hindu thinkers have taken a variety of approaches to the question of where we come from, with some making the case for divine intervention and others asking whether it is even possible for humans to comprehend the nature of creation.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will be available on the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b03k289f\">www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b03k289f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jessica Frazier from the Department of Religious Studies will be a guest on Thursday&#8217;s edition of\u00a0In Our Time\u00a0on Radio 4, a live BBC\u00a0 discussion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/04\/jessica-frazier-discusses-hindu-creation-on-radio-4\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1926,"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\/1924"}],"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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}