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How shared beliefs have shaped societies from the earliest days of humanity

How shared beliefs have shaped societies around the world, from the very earliest days of humanity with Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum.

How shared beliefs have shaped societies around the world, from the very earliest days of humanity with Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum. 

Image: Gold coin, Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Living with the Gods: Turning the Screw

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Turning the Screw

12/05/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Living with the Gods, Turning the Screw

A focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state

A focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state.

A plain board, to be found on a 17th-Century Japanese roadside, offers generous rewards to anyone who informs on Christians. At almost exactly the same time a print from France depicts the officially sanctioned destruction of a Huguenot Church just a few miles east of Paris.

Photograph (c) The Trustees of the British Museum.

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