{"id":1017,"date":"2020-02-11T08:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:06:57","slug":"why-world-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;World Religions&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it on World Religions Day, here&#8217;s David Robertson&#8217;s short piece on the history &#8211; and problems &#8211; of the idea of classifying (some) tradions as &#8220;World Religions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PopinEmbedVideo__embedHtml___-JMos\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Religion Day\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x7rj3w6&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it on World Religions Day, here&#8217;s David Robertson&#8217;s short piece on the history &#8211; and problems &#8211; of the idea of classifying (some) tradions as &#8220;World Religions&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}