{"id":9784,"date":"2019-01-28T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:45:03","slug":"yvonne-sherwood-beyond-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/28\/yvonne-sherwood-beyond-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Yvonne Sherwood interviewed for BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u2018Beyond Belief\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/sherwood.html\">Yvonne Sherwood<\/a>, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, was recently interviewed for BBC Radio 4\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006s6p6\">\u2018Beyond Belief\u2019<\/a> programme for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0001hk5\">episode on blasphemy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne describes how many people trace the roots of blasphemy to the Ten Commandments and to the idea of &#8216;taking the name of the Lord in vain&#8217;, but also discusses the general uncertainty over what blasphemy means in a modern context.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the right to free speech and causing offence, Yvonne says: \u2018Many people feel the privileging of religious beliefs is a special category that needs to be protected over political beliefs\u2026and also the idea that someone\u2019s religious identity goes to the very core of their person and must be respected.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Sherwood, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics in the Department of Religious Studies, was recently interviewed for BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u2018Beyond Belief\u2019 programme for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/28\/yvonne-sherwood-beyond-belief\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":7783,"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\/9784"}],"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\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}