Beyond Belief
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Belief: Fire in Religion: 20 MAY 2013
Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the role of fire within religion. Does fire always have a sense of duality? Is it a transformer or a destroyer?
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Beyond Belief: Fire in Religion
Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the role of fire within religion.
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Belief: 13 MAY 13: The Jesuits
At the start of a new series, Ernie Rea and guests debate the Jesuits, in the light of Pope Francis's recent election. How will the principles of the Order impact his papacy?
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Belief: 25 MAR 13: Evangelical
Ernie Rea and guests debate the meaning of the term "Evangelical."
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Belief: 18 MAR 13: Religion and Addiction
Ernie Rea and guests discuss spiritual approaches to the treatment of alcohol addiction.
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Belief: 11 MAR 13: Restorative Justice
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious principles behind Restorative Justice.
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Belief: 04 Mar 13: Animals
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of animals in the religions of East and West.
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Belief: 25 Feb 13: Islam and Homosexuality
Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether homosexuality is compatible with Islam.
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Belief: 18 Feb 13: Rastafari
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the beliefs and practices of Rastafari.
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Belief: 11 Feb 13: Inquisition
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Inquisition and its legacy.
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Belief: 04 Feb 13: Mali
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious dimensions of the crisis in Mali.
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Belief: 28 Jan 13: Anti Semitism in Europe
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the reasons behind rising anti-semitism in Europe.
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Belief: 21 Jan 13 : Development of Makkah
Ernie Rea discusses the development of Makkah with Professor Yaqub Zaki, Professor Mona Siddiqui and Irfan Al Alawi, Exec. Director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation.
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Belief: 14 Jan 2013 : Women in Sikhism
Ernie Rea and guests discuss women and Sikhism
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Belief: 07 JAN 13 : The Unification Church
Ernie Rea and guests discuss how the Unification church - are coming to terms with the death of its founder.
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Belief: 31 DEC 12: Apocalyptic
First in a new series of conversations about the place of faith in today's complex world. Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Apocalypse.
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Belief: 24 SEP 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Putin's Russia.
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Belief: 17 SEP 12
Ernie Rea chairs a special edition from the Imperial War Museum North on the treatment of civilians in armed conflict with General Sir Richard Dannatt and experts on war ethics.
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Belief: 10 Sep 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of women in Hinduism
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Belief: 03 SEP 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss religious responses to economic inequality.
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Belief: 27 AUG 12
Ernie Rea is joined by three prominent Baptists: Dianne Tidball, Ruth Gouldbourne and Peter Morden to discuss the history of the Baptist Church and its significance today.
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Belief: 20 AUG 12
Ernie Rea discusses the link between African churches, witchcraft & child abuse with Pastor Mahele Tangata; Romain Matondo; and Dr Richard Hoskins.
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Belief: 13 AUG 12
Ernie Rea is joined by Syrian businessman Ammar Waqqaf, historian Emma Loosely and Lecturer in Islamic Studies Mustafa Baig to discuss the role of religion in turbulent Syria.
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Belief: 06 AUG 12
Ernie Rea is joined by sociologist Frank Furedi and theologians David Thomas and Simon Podmore to discuss the significance of fear in religious traditions.
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Belief: 30 JUL 12
Ernie Rea explores the relationship between religion and depression with expert guests: Sabnum Dharamsi, a Muslim; Dr John Swinton, a Christian; and Ed Halliwell, a Buddhist.
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Belief: 23 APR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether modern physics leaves any room for God. Joining him are Dr John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, Dr Usama Hasan, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University and a part time Imam, and Dr Mark Vernon, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London who has degrees in physics, theology and philosophy.
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Belief: 16 APR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious foundations and function of monarchy. Joining him are Phillip Blond, Director of Res Publica; Symon Hill, Associate Director of the Think Tank, Ecclesia; and the Rev Dr Judith Maltby, Reader in Church History at the University of Oxford.
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Belief: 09 APR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious origin and moral aims of the Olympics. Joining him are Baroness Grey-Thompson, Vice Chair of the London 2012 Athlete's Commission; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Professor of Sociology at Toronto University and author of the book "Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda;" and Matthew Syed a sports journalist with the Times, who competed in table tennis at the Olympics in Barcelona and Sydney.
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Belief: 02 APR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the symbol of the cross in contemporary society. Joining him are Dr Sophie Lunn Rockcliffe, Lecturer in Roman History at King's College London; Dr Anna Robbins, Lecturer in Theology and Contemporary Culture at the London School of Theology; and Dr Ed Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic religions in Cambridge.
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Belief: 26 MAR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion and adoption. Joining him are Raffia Arshad, a family lawyer, Ruby Clay, an author who has adopted three children with her lesbian partner, and Fiona Bowie a social anthropologist and also an adoptive mother.
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Belief: 19 MAR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious dimensions to Nigeria's current crisis. Joining Ernie are Dr Jameel Yushau, senior lecturer in media and politics at Northumbria University, Dr Steven Pierce, lecturer in the history of sub Saharan Africa at the University of Manchester and Dr Leena Hoffmann who has just completed her PhD on democracy and patronage politics in Nigeria at the University of Birmingham.
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Belief: 12 MAR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of faith in the lives of travelling people. Joining him are Dr Adrian Marsh, Senior Programme Manager at the Open Society Foundation, Cathleen McDonagh, from Exchange House, a National Traveller Organisation in Dublin; and Jackie Boyd, a pastor with the Light and Life Gypsy Church.
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Belief: 05 MAR 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the appeal and direction of "New Atheism". Joining him are Professor Simon Blackburn, Vice President of the British Humanist Association; Mark Embleton, a psychologist and President of Atheism UK; and Lois Lee, founder of the Non-Religion and secularity research network.
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Belief: 27 FEB 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Korea following the death of Kim Jong-il. Joining Ernie for the discussion are James Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Modern Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield; Professor Sebastian Kim who holds the Chair in Theology and Public Life at York St John University; and Dr Jiyoung Song Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
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Belief: 20 FEB 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the Bahai faith. Joining him are two Bahai writers Moojan Momen and Lil Osborn, and Denis MacEoin who used to be a Bahai but left after he became disillusioned with what he saw as its authoritarian structures.
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Belief: 13 FEB 12
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the role of Bishops in the House of Lords. Joining him are the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester, Jonathan Bartley, Director of the Think Tank Ekklesia, and Dr Meg Russell, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit at University College London.
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Belief: 06 FEB 12
What role does religion play in the race for the Republican nomination for the White House? Ernie Rea is joined by Bob Vander Plaats, head of "The Family Leader" pressure group, Boo Tyson from "Coalition Mainstream" and Dr Alexander Smith from Huddersfield University.
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Belief: 30 JAN 12
Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the nature of pilgrimage and why it is growing so much in popularity in a so-called secular age. Joining him are Dr Marion Bowman, Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the Open University; Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions & Conservation and Connie Hill-Smith who is writing her doctoral thesis on cyber pilgrimage at the University of Wales, Trinity & St. David's.
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Belief: 23 JAN 12
This week's Beyond Belief comes from Scotland, where Ernie Rea and his guests discuss same sex marriage, which the Scottish government is considering legalising. Joining him are John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrew's, the Reverend John Bell, a Church of Scotland minister and Bashir Maan, Former Convenor of the Muslim Council of Scotland.
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Belief: Beyond Belief
Ernie Rea & his guests discuss the origin of the Protestant Work Ethic & its relationship to today's crisis in capitalism and the global financial markets. Joining him are Lord Mawson, social entrepreneur, cross bench peer & minister in the United Reformed Church; Professor Sam Whimster, Fellow in the Centre for Advanced Study at the University of Bonn, and Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi of New North London Synagogue.
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Belief: 09 JAN 12
Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the nature of mystical experiences. Do they always entail altered states of consciousness? Joining him are Dr David Luke, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and President of the Parapsychological Association, Shamanic Practioner, Dr Zoe Bran and Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
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Belief: 02 JAN 12
In the first of a new series, Ernie Rea and his guests discuss Islam & the Veil. Joining him for a lively debate are Fatima Barkatullah, writer and lecturer for the Islamic Education & Research Academy, Dr Shuruq Naguib, Lecturer in Islam at Lancaster University and Khola Hasan, Lecturer on Women's Rights under Islamic law & member of the Islamic Sharia Council.
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Belief: 03 OCT 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the future of Catholicism in the Irish Republic. Joining him are Dublin priest Father Joe Murphy, David Quinn, a columnist for the Irish Catholic and Irish Times, and the theologian and lecturer in medical ethics, Gina Menzies.
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Belief: Beyond Belief
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the history, role and future of Britain's Black churches. They analyse the breadth of their appeal, and they ask how comfortably some of their theological and cultural beliefs sit with Western culture.
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Belief: 19 SEP 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the practice of exorcism. Joining him are the Rt Rev Graham Dow, former Bishop of Carlisle; Dr Simon Dein, a Psychiatrist with an interest in the Anthropology of Religion; and the Rev Elizabeth Baxter, Executive Director of Holy Rood House Therapeutic Centre.
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Belief: 12 SEP 11
In a programme marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Ernie Rea and guests discuss Christian and Muslim understandings of God, humans and evil. Joining him are Miroslav Volf, Henry B Q Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School; Mona Siddiqi Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow; and Father Damian Howard, lecturer in Muslim-Christian Relations at Heythrop College in the University of London.
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Belief: 05 SEP 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the vexed question of Jewish identity. Joining him are Laura Janner-Klausner, Rabbi of the Alyth Reform Synagogue in London; Natan Levy, the Orthodox Rabbi of Shenley United Jewish Congregation; and Dr Brian Klug Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, and author of "Being Jewish and Doing Justice."
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Belief: 29 AUG 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the development of Buddhism in the West. Joining him are Nagapriya from the Buddhist Triratna Order, Ani Rinchen Khandro, a nun in the Tibetan tradition, and Will Buckingham, a lecturer at deMontfort University, Leicester who describes himself as "Buddhish" rather than "Buddhist."
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Belief: 22 AUG 11
Joining Ernie Rea to discuss Sectarianism in contemporary Scotland are Peter Kearney, a spokesperson for the Catholic Church in Scotland, Michael Rosie, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Edinburgh University and Harry Reid, former editor of The Herald and member of the Church of Scotland.
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Belief: 15 AUG 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the effects of Globalisation on Religion. Joining him are Martin Palmer from the Alliance of Religion, Conservation and the Environment, Dr Sara Silvestri from City University, London, and Adrian Wooldridge a columnist with The Economist and the co-author of the book "God is Back."
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Belief: Beyond Belief
Ernie Rea and guests discuss the principle of Sabbath rest. Sports Commentator Dan Walker tells him why he refuses to work on a Sunday, and he is joined by Rabbi Naftali Brawer, Sam Barker of the Relationships Foundation and Keep Sunday Special Campaign, and Philip Booth from the Institute of Economic Affairs.
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Belief: Beyond Belief
Ernie Rea and guests discuss Religion and the Generation Gap. Joining him are Professor David Voas from Manchester University, Sadek Hamid a researcher into Muslim youth, and the Rabbi and Baroness, Julia Neuberger.
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Belief: 25 JUL 11
Ernie Rea and guests discuss Religion and the Big Society. Joining him are Phillip Blond, Director of the Think Tank Respublica and widely credited as being the originator of the government's Big Society idea, Maleiha Malik, Professor in Law at King's College, London and Antony Lerman, former founding director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research.
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Belief: 18 JUL 11
Ernie Rea asks how the events of the Arab Spring will affect the fortunes of Christians in the Middle East. He is joined by Nadim Nassar, a Syrian and Anglican priest, Professor Madawi al-Rasheed from Kings College London, and Ziya Meral, fellow of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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Belief: 11 JUL 11
Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the Christian understanding of Hell are the Catholic writer and commentator, Peter Stanford, lecturer in patristic theology at Exeter University, Morwenna Ludlow, and lecturer at Oakhill theological college Daniel Strange.
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Belief: 07 MAR 11
Immortality
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Belief: 28 FEB 11
Male Spirituality
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Belief: 21 FEB 11
The role and place of nuns in religious communities.
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Belief: 14 FEB 11
Faith Schools
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Belief: 07 FEB 11
The roots of tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
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Belief: 31 JAN 11
Celebrity culture
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Belief: Beyond Belief
The disputed site of Ayodhya in India.
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Belief: 17 JAN 11
The religious history and make-up of Egypt
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Belief: 10 JAN 11
Suicide
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Belief: 03 JAN 11
Translating Holy Books
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Belief: 27 DEC 10
The Magi
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Belief: 20 DEC 10
Philanthropy
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Belief: 13 DEC 10
The Supernatural
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Belief: 04 OCT 10
The history and place of Islam in America.
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Belief: 27 SEP 10
Religion in prison
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Belief: 20 SEP 10
Charedi Jewry
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Belief: 13 SEP 10
The life, beliefs and legacy of Cardinal Newman.
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Belief: 06 SEP 10
The roots of English Catholicism
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