{"id":76,"date":"2021-05-19T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/eastmeetswest\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2021-09-02T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T09:56:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/eastmeetswest\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EAST MEETS WEST is a blog of School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland. (UEF)  The School of Theology as part of the UEF belongs to the state university, which makes the researchers independent but not isolated from the society and environment around it. East Meets West is not only about the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity. It is a wider concept under which religions and their connections to the diversity of life can be studied. 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