The Long Search ★ a BBC Series on Religion with Book and MKV

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The Long Search ★ a BBC Series on Religion with Book and MKV

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The Long Search is a 1977 BBC documentary television series spanning 13 episodes. Presented by theater director Ronald Eyre, the series surveys several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity. Other episodes survey Theravada and Zen Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and the New Age movement. Location filming took place in India, England, Italy, Japan, Israel, Romania, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United States, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Africa.

Scholar of religion Ninian Smart acted as editorial consultant to the show, and also authored a companion book of the same name.

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Episodes: 01 Protestant Spirit USA 02 Hinduism - 330 Million Gods 03 Buddhism - Footprint of the Buddha India 04 Catholicism - Rome Leeds and the Desert 05 Islam - There is no God but God 06 Orthodox Christianity - The Romanian Solution 07 Judaism - The Chosen People 08 Religion In Indonesia - The Way of the Ancestors 09 Buddhism - The Land of the Disappearing Buddha Japan 10 African Religions - Zulu Zion 11 Taoism A Question of Balance - China 12 Alternative Lifestyles in California - West Meets East 13 Reflections on the Long Search

The 1977 companion book to this series "The Long Search", by "Ninian Smart", is available to borrow or buy:

https://archive.org/details/longsearch00smar

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BBC, Time Life Multimedia

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English

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