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Beyond Belief: 10/03/2014

10/03/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, 10/03/2014

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious significance of the wilderness.

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the idea and experience of the wilderness in some of the world's great faiths.

The Christian season of Lent is a time for recalling the forty days and nights spent by Jesus in the wilderness at the beginning of his ministry. In other faiths too the wilderness is a place of refuge, self- discovery, temptation and joy.

Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the idea and experience of the wilderness are the Anglican Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell, the Buddhist writer Vishvapani, and Laura Feldt, associate Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Odense in Denmark.

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