{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-05T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Wordpress\/EverydaySpirituality\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-10-05T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T10:40:00","slug":"welcome-to-esp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":">Welcome to ESp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/RwYs2e875XI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/sNZ-dJAF0zY\/s1600-h\/logo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117827341086352754\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/RwYs2e875XI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/sNZ-dJAF0zY\/s320\/logo2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/RwYYPO875TI\/AAAAAAAAAMk\/oY7crfj-zD0\/s1600-h\/logo1.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#339999;\"><strong>Everyday Spirituality<\/strong><\/span> is a research project exploring what \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirituality\">spirituality<\/a>\u2019 means in modern society, and how and why people use spirituality in their daily lives. We are not talking here of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religion\">religion<\/a> as an organised, institutional way of understanding our place in the greater scheme of things, but as the idiosyncratic and unique ways that individuals seek meaning in their lives in a modern, complex and materialistic world.<\/p>\n<p>On this blog you will find a series of questions or discussions (each post is a new question) based on themes being explored in the research. Please feel free to contribute your thoughts and ideas to as many of these as possible. New posts are added regularly, and if you have an idea for a new one let me know!<\/p>\n<p>This is part of a wider research project being carried out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/hsc\/people\/profile.php?name=Sara_MacKian\">The Open University<\/a>. I am currently recruiting new research participants. If you have an interest in &#8216;the spiritual&#8217; but do not necessarily consider yourself &#8216;religious&#8217; and would like to take part in the research please contact me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> Everyday Spirituality is a research project exploring what \u2018spirituality\u2019 means in modern society, and how and why people use spirituality in their daily lives. We are not talking here of religion as an organised, institutional way of understanding our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=22\">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-22","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\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}