{"id":9202,"date":"2018-09-25T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:44:39","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-andrew-hass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/09\/25\/nostalgia-podcast-with-andrew-hass\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with Andrew Hass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of podcast series on \u2018Nostalgia\u2019, hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has just been released.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s interview, Chris interviews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stir.ac.uk\/people\/257440\">Andrew Hass<\/a>, Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. Originally from Canada, Andrew discusses the concepts of home and belongingness and how we identify ourselves in a global context (e.g. \u2018a citizen of the world\u2019), prompting questions of nostalgia for one\u2019s homeland. In Andrew\u2019s case, Scotland is a place that intellectually formed him.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Andrew also identifies the extent to which popular music evokes memories, such that we are immediately drawn back to a certain era through the simple listening to a song, and how it can bind people together in a way few other media are able to do. Jazz was a particularly formative part of his young adulthood, followed by progressive rock and then classical music. Andrew\u2019s latest project is centred on the relationship between music, spirituality and religion and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew introduces the concept of \u2018superficial nostalgia\u2019 and outlines how, when there\u2019s chaos around, the calming effect of music can be requisite to one\u2019s sanity. We learn why Andrew grew up listening to so much Joni Mitchell in whose music he has found a lyrical and poetic depth that is equivalent to the works of the best craftsmen.<\/p>\n<p>The interview then explores how literature was the pathway into his present discipline and the intersections between English and theology. Discussing crossing disciplines, Andrew outlines his hope that dialogue with musicologists can open up new spaces for practitioners in both subjects. He discusses how those who work in Religious Studies might be said to be on a particular kind of journey that necessarily disrupts the kinds of presuppositions and inherited perspectives that were part of our early development. Andrew tells us why belief is irreversible and why he looks back on his early years with a sense of gratitude (as distinct from nostalgia) and he explains why he wouldn\u2019t want to go back to that period of his life.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is available here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7016009-andrew-hass\">https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7016009-andrew-hass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of podcast series on \u2018Nostalgia\u2019, hosted by\u00a0Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the\u00a0Department of Religious Studies, has just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/09\/25\/nostalgia-podcast-with-andrew-hass\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":9203,"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\/9202"}],"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=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}