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The Long Search a BBC Series on Religion with Book and (1977)

1977 · Classic TV series

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Presented by theater director Ronald Eyre, the series surveys several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity. Other episodes survey Theravada and Zen Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and the New Age movement. Location filming took place in India, England, Italy, Japan, Israel, Romania, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United States, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Africa. Scholar of religion Ninian Smart acted as editorial consultant to the show, and also authored a companion book of the same name. The federal funding that supports Public Media has been eliminated in July of 2025 by the Republicans. Your PBS viewing experience is going away. you can pay "Attention" … now a viable currency in 2026. Hopefully they will get big contracts from impressed educators - once the schools see the immensity of their catalog! These videos are all to be used only for free, personal, educational purposes. No other use is authorized. For classroom use: please contact Ambrose Video Publishing to purchase it. 02 Hinduism - 330 Million Gods Ronald Eyre discusses God, Hinduism, Pantheism, enlightenment and the guru. 03 Buddhism - Footprint of the Buddha India Ronald Eyre discusses Buddha, Buddhism, India, enlightenment, non duality, non-attachment, monks and suffering. 04 Catholicism - Rome Leeds and the Desert Ronald Eyre discusses God, Christ, Jesus, Catholicism, Catholics, Pope, Vatican, Jesus Christ, Salvation and priests. 05 Islam - There is no God but God…

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