Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

It was a privilege to catch up again with Peter Moore who came to the University of Kent in 1971 and taught Religious Studies over the course of the following 40 years. Peter begins by discussing the composition of the department when he arrived where he was only one of three staff in Religious Studies. We discuss the influence of Ninian Smart and how Peter came to discover Religious Studies through literature. For Peter, multi-disciplinarity is important and he explains his pedagogical approach of always engaging with students at the level where they are. Peter was born just outside London at the end of the Second World War and he talks about his passion when young for Latin. We learn that Peter doesn’t have especially vivid memories of the past and we discuss the interpretive nature of nostalgia, the co-relationship between the past and the future, and whether it is possible to be nostalgic about his four decades at the University of Kent. We cover the long hot summer of 1976 and discover what Peter was