• 2009
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
Around the World in 80 Faiths

Summary Church of England vicar Peter Owen-Jones has been given a year's sabbatical to travel the world with a BBC crew to explore different faiths around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. View more details

  • 2009
  • TV-PG
  • 1h

Around the World in 80 Faiths

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Owen Jones Jared Sawyer Jr.

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7.8

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 1, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : BBC

Language : English

Production companies : BBC Manchester

Summary Church of England vicar Peter Owen-Jones has been given a year's sabbatical to travel the world with a BBC crew to explore different faiths around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 1, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : BBC

Language : English

Production companies : BBC Manchester

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Around the World in 80 Faiths (2009) Around the World in 80 Faiths (2009)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 01, 2009
Australasia and the Pacific Ring of Fire
Anglican priest Simon Owen-Jones starts his comparative studio of religions -especially minorities- in Australasia. In largest Muslim country Indonesia, he meets the Bougie people, which also maintains its animism with transgender mediums, and the pure animism of the isolated Tora, where corpses are kept in their room and treated as if alive during the years of preparation for extremely elaborate funerals, the family's priority and community-building. On the mainly Catholic Philippines, he enjoys a church festival incorporating a bull ride as symbol of the submitting paganism, which thus survives culturally. In Australia, he meets Aboriginals, where much of the dream world paganism gets lost, but immigrants find a new home for persecuted religions mistaken for devil-worship, like dualism, and the urban revival of nature-cult witchcraft. Finally to Tanna island in Vanuata, isolated enough for tribal religion to survive in its original form, volcano worship and hallucination-inducing plant extract, and spring new cults founded by modern prophets, one anti- and one Christian-inspired.
Episode 2 • Jan 08, 2009
The Far East
Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth. Here, Pete encounters the exotic religions of the Far East, including Buddhism, Shinto and Taoism.
Episode 3 • Jan 15, 2009
Africa
Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on Earth. Pete continues his odyssey with a gruelling journey exploring the spiritual traditions of Africa.
Episode 4 • Jan 22, 2009
The Middle East
Pete Owen Jones's epic journey exploring the world's beliefs continues in the Middle East, taking him to Syria, Samaria, northern Iraq and Jerusalem.
Episode 5 • Jan 29, 2009
USA
Episode 6 • Feb 05, 2009
India
Episode 7 • Feb 12, 2009
Latin America
Pete Owen Jones's exploration of world faiths continues in Latin America, where he visits a UFO-worshipping community and goes down a mine to meet an underworld god.
Episode 8 • Feb 19, 2009
Europe
Peter Owen Jones journeys across his home continent, Europe. He finds a few surprises, and discovers that his own church was responsible for persecution and death.

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