In Our Time: Religion
Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gvqlg
- Description
- Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 02:45
- last episode published
- 2025-03-27 10:15
- publication frequency
- 73.91 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 130
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-27 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hindu goddess Kali, often depicted as dark blue, fierce, defiant, revelling in her power, and holding in her four or more arms a curved sword and a severed head with a cup underneath to catch the blood. She may have ... |
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| 2025-02-27 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a story that circulated widely in the middle ages about a highly learned woman who lived in the ninth century, dressed as a man, travelled to Rome, and was elected Pope.Her papacy came to a dramatic end when it was revea... |
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| 2024-07-18 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine of Karma as developed initially among Hindus, Jains and Buddhists in India from the first millennium BCE. Common to each is an idea, broadly, that you reap what you sow: how you act in this world has conseq... |
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| 2024-04-18 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and introduced a policy of tolerating the faith across the empire, Julian (c.331 - 363 AD) aimed to promote pag... |
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| 2024-01-04 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Karl Barth (1886 - 1968) rejected the liberal theology of his time which, he argued, used the Bible and religion to help humans understand themselves rat... |
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| 2023-11-16 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress and mystic who, in the late fourteenth century, wrote about her visions of Christ suffering, in a work since known as Revelations of Divine Love. She is probably the first named woman writer in English, ev... |
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| 2023-06-01 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory collection of Biblical texts, legal documents, community rules and literary writings. In 1946 a Bedouin shepherd boy was looking for a goat he’d lost in the hills above the Dead Sea. He threw a rock into ... |
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| 2023-04-06 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic which is regarded as one of the greatest works of world literature. Its importance in Indian culture has been compared to that of the Iliad and Odyssey in the West, and it’s still see... |
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| 2023-02-09 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Donne (1573-1631), known now as one of England’s finest poets of love and notable in his own time as an astonishing preacher. He was born a Catholic in a Protestant country and, when he married Anne More without her fat... |
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| 2022-07-21 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and muc... |
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