{"id":8190,"date":"2017-12-20T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:14:30","slug":"chris-deacy-on-christmas-radio-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/12\/20\/chris-deacy-on-christmas-radio-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Deacy on Christmas radio traditions"},"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 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has contributed an online article to the blog of the <a href=\"http:\/\/iamhist.org\">International Association for Media and History<\/a> (IAMHIST) entitled \u2018Christmas on the Radio\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The piece argues that our traditions of Christmas radio programming, particularly Radio 2\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09jqp3h\"><em>Christmas Junior Choice<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>take on the same characteristics through rituals and commitments to secular religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If, for example, we might be inclined to see our ultimate spiritual meaning to lie in our relationships with others,\u2019 explains Chris, \u2018then\u00a0<em>Junior Choice\u00a0<\/em>might be a prime example of an alternative way to form a concept of religion, with its devotees who construe the two hours of nostalgia and reconnecting with the past on Christmas morning as a form of transcendent, even sacred, time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The piece draws upon research undertaken for Chris\u2019s book <em>Christmas as Religion: Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2016), which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=6318\">published last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christmas Junior Choice<\/em> will be broadcast at 10am on Christmas Day 2017 on BBC Radio 2.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full piece, please see IAMHIST\u2019s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iamhist.org\/2017\/12\/christmas-radio\/\">http:\/\/iamhist.org\/2017\/12\/christmas-radio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has contributed an online article to the blog of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/12\/20\/chris-deacy-on-christmas-radio-traditions\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8192,"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\/8190"}],"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=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}