{"id":7280,"date":"2008-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/06\/bishop-emperor-are-out-multifaith-is-in\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T12:00:00","slug":"bishop-emperor-are-out-multifaith-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/06\/bishop-emperor-are-out-multifaith-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bishop,&#8221; &#8220;Emperor&#8221; Are Out, &#8220;Multifaith&#8221; Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/001200812071728.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, December 7, 2008:  Words linked to British history and Christianity have been eased out from a leading UK dictionary for children. The Oxford University Press has taken out words like &#8220;aisle&#8221;, &#8220;bishop&#8221;, &#8220;chapel&#8221;, &#8220;empire&#8221; and &#8220;monarch&#8221; from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with modern words like &#8220;blog&#8221;, &#8220;broadband&#8221;, &#8220;voicemail&#8221; and &#8220;MP3 player.&#8221; Moreover, dozens of words related to the countryside have been culled.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society. According to Vineeta Gupta, the Head of Children&#8217;s Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, &#8220;Nowadays, the environment has changed. We are much more multicultural. Our understanding of religion is in multi-culturalism, which is why some words would have been in 20 years ago but not now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, December 7, 2008: Words linked to British history and Christianity have been eased out from a leading,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}