Around the World in 80 Faiths
Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year.
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1.Australasia and the Pacific Ring of Fire
02-01-200960mPete travels to Australasia to find out how tribal faiths have survived into the 21st century. He goes into the Australian outback in search of the meaning of aboriginal dreaming,...
2.The Far East
09-01-200960mPete encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East, from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan to enlightening Taoist monks in the mounta...
3.Africa
16-01-200960mPete continues his year-long religious odyssey with a gruelling journey exploring the spiritual traditions of Africa. He sets off hoping to get a glimpse of man's first experience...
4.The Middle East
23-01-200960mPete travels to Israel where he meets the African-Americans who have settled in the Holy Land to live by the principles of the Old Testament - including polygamy. He travels to Syr...
5.North America
31-01-200960mPete discovers a dangerous side to the Bible Belt when he gets too close to the serpent handlers in the Appalachian mountains, before taking his seat at a table-tipping seance. He...
6.The Indian Subcontinent
06-02-200960mPete journeys from the Nepalese Himalayas to the south of India to make sense of the mystery of Indian religions, including the transmigration of the soul, karma, the pantheon of g...
7.Latin America
13-02-200960mPete smokes cigars with Saint Death in Mexico, ventures deep into a Bolivian mine to meet a terrifying god of the underworld, and takes a mind-expanding natural hallucinogen with a...
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8.Europe
20-02-200960mIn Europe, he finds a series of unexpected and surprising rituals and sects - huge underground New Age temples in Italy, shamans in Norway, and Europe's only Buddhist republic. Pet...
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