{"id":96,"date":"2014-06-16T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/religion\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=96"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:07:59","slug":"richard-d-macphail","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/religionpubliclife\/people\/richard-d-macphail\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard D. MacPhail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Richard MacPhail received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from McMaster University in 1995. He studied Vedanta and Sanskrit at Madras University. 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