{"id":20,"date":"2009-07-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Wordpress\/EverydaySpirituality\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-07-23T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:25:00","slug":"spiritual-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":">Spiritual spaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/Smljnw-xJuI\/AAAAAAAABAc\/_w6GhEBxh8s\/s1600-h\/P6020009-1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361926366175504098\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/Smljnw-xJuI\/AAAAAAAABAc\/_w6GhEBxh8s\/s400\/P6020009-1.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>One of my research participants had an interesting experience recently. Upon trying to get his Tarot workshop advertised he was excluded from a particular publication on the grounds that it did not cover anything to do with &#8216;spirituality&#8217;.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Upon a quick flick through said publication he came across an advertisement for a &#8216;church walk&#8217;. He was informed by the editors that churches had not been seen as &#8216;spiritual&#8217; and had therefore been included. Fairly ironic given the fact that they remain one of the most widespread physical expressions of spirituality in the British landscape.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My participant felt discriminated against. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I am sure many church goers would also be horrified to know their sacred spaces had been deemed non-spiritual.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What does consititute a spiritual space and can we distinguish between mainstream and minority spiritual interests in today&#8217;s society?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> One of my research participants had an interesting experience recently. Upon trying to get his Tarot workshop advertised he was excluded from a particular publication on the grounds that it did not cover anything to do with &#8216;spirituality&#8217;. Upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=20\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}