{"id":7258,"date":"2017-04-13T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:05:36","slug":"chris-deacy-on-religion-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/13\/chris-deacy-on-religion-and-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Deacy on religion and film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has been interviewed for the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/wideopenairexchange.com\">Wide Open Air Exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wide Open Air Exchange is run by the Sydney-based radio producer Christine Gallagher, inspired by\u00a0her time as postgraduate student at Oxford University. She aims to encounter new ideas, to learn about interesting individuals and tap into their knowledge and insights.<\/p>\n<p>Chris\u2019s research concerns the intersections of religion and secular films, including analysing\u00a0popular films such as <em>Groundhog Day <\/em>(1993)\u00a0and <em>Fight Club <\/em>(1999). In the podcast, he discusses some philosophical questions about\u00a0religion and shares stories from his formative years, as well as\u00a0his discovery of film and religious\u00a0studies.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast, which <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/wide-open-air-exchange\/id1153491154?mt=2\">is available on iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/wide-open-air-exchange?refid=stpr\">on Stitcher<\/a>, can\u00a0be listened to online here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wideopenairexchange.com\/2017\/04\/13\/woae032-religion-and-film-chris-deacy\/\">https:\/\/wideopenairexchange.com\/2017\/04\/13\/woae032-religion-and-film-chris-deacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in\u00a0the\u00a0Department of Religious Studies, has been interviewed for the podcast Wide Open Air Exchange. Wide Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/04\/13\/chris-deacy-on-religion-and-film\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7259,"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\/7258"}],"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=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}