{"id":797,"date":"2018-10-09T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:50:47","slug":"3-minute-theories-imagined-communities-with-stefanie-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"3 Minute Theories | Imagined Communities, with Stefanie Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back! In bang-on three minutes, Stefanie Sinclair tells us about Benedict Anderson&#8217;s theory of Imagined Communities, in which groups gather around ideas and identities even when separated geographically. Originally coined for nationalism studies, the concept has great significance for other fields, including Religious Studies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Minute Theories | Imagined Communities, with Stefanie Sinclair\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x6urcqp&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>What Imagined COmmunities are you part of? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back! In bang-on three minutes, Stefanie Sinclair tells us about Benedict Anderson&#8217;s theory of Imagined Communities, in which groups gather around ideas and identities even when separated geographically. Originally coined for nationalism studies, the concept has great significance for other fields, including Religious Studies. What Imagined COmmunities are you part of? Let us know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,105],"tags":[107,269,268,120,108,62],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","category-videos","tag-3mt","tag-benedict-arnold","tag-imagined-communities","tag-stefanie-sinclair","tag-three-minute-theories","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}