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Thinking Allowed: Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt

15/01/2014

Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt

Laurie looks at research into the fragility of both religious and political belief systems

Laurie Taylor looks at research into the fragility of both religious and political belief systems. Also, waiting in A&E.

Faith and doubt: an ethnographic study into political and spiritual convictions in an age of uncertainty. Laurie Taylor talks to the Lecturer in Anthropology, Dr Mathijs Pelkmans, about wide ranging research which suggests that the foundations of religious and secular 'faiths' are surprisingly fragile. Drawing on a diverse range of cases, from spirit mediums in Taiwan to right-wing populists in Europe, he analyses the ways that belief systems are either sustained or collapse. He's joined by Alpa Shah who has studied Maoists revolutionaries in India. Also, Alexandra Hillman discusses her new paper on 'waiting' in hospital emergency departments.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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