{"id":6596,"date":"2014-07-17T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:52:34","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-17-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6596","title":{"rendered":"Around the Blogosphere, 17 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Tanya Luhrman compares the cultural differences in “hearing voices” in the United States, Ghana, and India.<\/a> Plus, a Dutch psychiatrist who encourages it in his patients!<\/p>\n

\u00b6 You have read Ethan Doyle White’s interview with Ronald Hutton, right? If not, here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 Two from Sarah Veale at Invocatio<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A PhD dissertation with music on “Satanic feminism.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Discussing ancient Greek terms helps us understand “sacred space.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00b6 Mary Harrsch corrrects a slander against Julian, the last Pagan emperor of Rome.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Tanya Luhrman compares the cultural differences in “hearing voices” in the United States, Ghana, and India. Plus, a Dutch psychiatrist who encourages it in his patients! \u00b6 You have read Ethan Doyle White’s interview with Ronald Hutton, right? If not, here it is. \u00b6 Two from Sarah Veale at Invocatio: \u2022 A PhD dissertation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,20,33,100,143,56],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anthropology","tag-archaeology","tag-greece","tag-history","tag-india","tag-rome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Io","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":733,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=733","url_meta":{"origin":6596,"position":0},"title":"‘Western Pagan Cult’ Comes to India","author":"Chas S. 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