16:30 - 17:30
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
Night Waves: The Return of Faith |
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 Due to the huge success of this series we have now archived all of it for you to listen to at leisure. The programmes from March 2006 explored the resurgence of religion across the globe. Programme 1: Isabel Hilton goes to Central Anatolia in Turkey to meet the new breed of Islamic entrepreneurs busy quoting Max Weber whilst creating a radical new hybrid of Islam and Calvinism. Listen to Return of Faith - programme one. Duration 45 mins. Programme 2: Paul Allen and guests discuss China 's surprising new found relationship with the "opiate of the masses". How much an attempt to temper the excesses of the new consumer Capitalism and how much to protect against the disillusionment of China's 100 million itinerant workers for whom the economic miracle has not happened but upon whom the economy, and the 2008 Olympics, depend? Listen again Programme 3: Philip Dodd goes to Middle America to meet those battling for the heart of Evangelical Christianity. He talks to those who believe "The Rapture"- the Biblical prophesy that heralds the end of the world - is brought ever closer by the conflict in Iraq and tracks their attempts to influence foreign policy in the Middle East . But he also talks to Evangelicals who are pushing for a more earth-bound Christian activism that cares as much about environmentalism as abortion, homosexuality and Armageddon. Listen again Programme 4: Continuing the week long exploration into the resurgence of religion across the globe, Philip Dodd and guests discuss Israel and the tensions that exist between religious and secular Jews regarding the direction of its future. Listen again Programme 5: Philosopher Daniel Dennett, politician Baronness Shirley Williams and writers Malise Ruthven and Karen Armstrong join Matthew Sweet to explore why religion seems to have made such a comeback on the world stage. A part of our evolutionary make up that cannot be argued away? Filling a moral vacuum created by the consumer society? Or the only means left available for the oppressed to express their powerlessness? Listen again |
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