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Encounter - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Saturday 27 Oct 2012

    Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, has existed in India for centuries. More orthodox Muslims regard it with disapproval but Sufism's main challenge may be its own popularity, as it faces appropriation into Bollywood films and New Age movements.

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Saturday 20 Oct 2012

    This week we look at the symbolism of snakes in different religious and spiritual stories. We find out how Polynesians are reinterpreting the Genesis story, we'll talk to an Aboriginal man whose totem is the taipan, and find out why a Christian group in the Appalachian Mountains handles rattlesnakes in their services. This program was originally broadcast on 5th April 2009.

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Saturday 13 Oct 2012

    Fifty years ago almost to the day Pope John XX111 opened the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church. Vatican II reverberates still – and this Encounter picks up on one wave it created: dialogue.

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Saturday 6 Oct 2012

    Is religion merely superstition writ large as its detractors claim, or is superstition a corruption of religious ideas, a veering away from the one true path? Centuries after the enlightenment and the rise of the scientific world-view, superstition is still very common in our daily lives. We explore the history, psychology and philosophy of magical thinking and ask, where does superstition end and faith begin?

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