{"id":4828,"date":"2015-09-04T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2015-09-04T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:51:01","slug":"religious-studies-50th-anniversary-lecture-and-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/04\/religious-studies-50th-anniversary-lecture-and-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Studies 50th anniversary lecture and reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies <\/a>celebrates 50 years of the study of religion at the University 0f Kent\u00a0with a 50th Anniversary Lecture on Tuesday 8 September 2015 in the Conference Suite, Darwin College,\u00a0with a drinks reception\u00a0at 6.30pm and the lecture at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture entitled &#8216;Religion and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Asia and the Rest&#8217; will be given by Professor Peter van der Veer\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmg.mpg.de\/\">Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity<\/a>, Gottingen, Germany and is hosted by the Humanities 50th anniversary fund, University of Kent, in conjunction with the keynote address of the <a href=\"http:\/\/basr.ac.uk\/\">British Association for the Study of Religions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reception will also launch the booklet <em>From the Local to the Global: 50 Years of the Study of Religion in the Humanities at the University of Kent, 1965-2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Further details of the event are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=14723&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20150903&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Religious Studies celebrates 50 years of the study of religion at the University 0f Kent\u00a0with a 50th Anniversary Lecture on Tuesday 8 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/04\/religious-studies-50th-anniversary-lecture-and-reception\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":4439,"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\/4828"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}