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Around the World in 80 Faiths: Episode 7: Latin America

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Episode 7: Latin America

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Pete Owen Jones discovers the faiths and spiritual beliefs of 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.

Pete Owen Jones's exploration of world faiths takes a bizarre turn in Latin America. He smokes cigars with Saint Death in Mexico, ventures deep into a Bolivian mine to meet a terrifying god of the underworld, and takes a mind-expanding natural hallucinogen with a New Age community in the forests of Brazil.

He also discovers how the centuries-old dominance of the Catholic Church is being challenged by a huge explosion of new religions and the re-emergence of dormant practices from the past. But his search to understand the diverse spiritualities of the New World proves to be a testing experience.

Pete encounters the radical methods of an influential Pentecostal preacher in one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious prisons, and has to hold his nerve when the minister tries to exorcise Pete's addiction to nicotine. 

In Brasilia he witnesses the space-age pageantry of a UFO-worshipping community, where a mediumistic reading gets out of control and Pete has to deal with a dark and frightening presence from the spirit world.

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Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth

Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year

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