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Around the world in 80 faiths. Rituals. The Far East /

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Pete observes a purification ritual during the Shinto Oto Matsuri fire festival and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. Pete encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East, from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan to enlight...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Other Authors: Salt, Siân (Director, Producer), Jones, Peter Owen (Speaker)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2009.
Series:VAST: academic video online
Subjects:
Rites and ceremonies > East Asia.
Ritual > East Asia.
Rites and ceremonies.
Ritual.
East Asia.
Documentary television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Pete observes a purification ritual during the Shinto Oto Matsuri fire festival and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. Pete encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East, from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan to enlightening Taoist monks in the mountains of China. He also visits an obscure Shamanic sect in South Korea, and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. In Buddhist Thailand, he explores the meaning of non-attachment, and in Vietnam he comes under the spell of a divine eye, before giving money away to a mother goddess.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 11, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (63 min.).
Playing Time:01:02:57