{"id":2002,"date":"2013-12-19T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T09:29:02","slug":"debate-joys-and-problems-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/19\/debate-joys-and-problems-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate: &#8216;Joys and Problems of Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>\u00a0have published a debate the joys and problems of Christmas online in two parts.<\/p>\n<p>In part 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies, considers the problems of Christmas, including Santa Claus\u2019 roots and if shopping is the real religion of Christmas. Part 2 sees\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/legrys.html\">Dr Alan Le Grys<\/a>, Associate Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, agree that Christmas has become a largely non-Christian festival, celebrated in shopping centres and the romantic nostalgia often associated with carol concerts.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is published as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/comment\/index.html\">Kent Comment<\/a> database in the University&#8217;s News Centre, a collection of expert commentary on topical issues.<\/p>\n<p>To read the debate, please follow the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/comment\/stories\/Joys_problems_Christmas1\/2013\">Joys and Problems of Christmas: Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/comment\/stories\/Joys_problems_Christmas2\/2013\">Joys and Problems of Christmas: Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the\u00a0Department of Religious Studies\u00a0have published a debate the joys and problems of Christmas online in two parts. In part 1\u00a0Dr Chris Deacy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/19\/debate-joys-and-problems-of-christmas\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2006,"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\/2002"}],"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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}