Religion

Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods. Dangerous Religion: Islamic State and Extremism. Audio

Religions that followed supreme deities emerged after societies had become civilised. University of Auckland Phd student Joseph Watts talks to the Panel about the research. Audio

Sonia Sly meets members of The Redeemed Motorcycle Ministry, including founding member Amos Perese Ale, female rider Ni Te Pou, and Rotorua-based William Rudolf whose contrasting perspectives and… Audio

Mike Gourley profiles the Jewish festival of Hannukah. Audio

Dr Joseph Bulbulia studies why people turn to religion and how their interaction with their chosen belief system affects their behaviour, their health, their ability to recover from adverse events and… Audio

Lisa Thompson meets Buddhi Wilcox, a Northland Hare Krishna devotee who has so far delivered 70,000 hot meals to school children, in his bid to try and tackle child poverty in his region. Audio

Ha the Unclear's Michael Cathro has overseen a long migration with his project - from Dunedin where he started the band under another name, to Cork, Ireland, and finally to Auckland. The migration has… Audio

Wayne looks at Dunedin's Calvinist past and the lampooning it received from one of the country's best known poets. Wallace follows up with the decidedly un-Calvinistic theologian, Sir Lloyd Geering. Audio

Britain's foremost scholar of world religion, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and founder of the Charter for Compassion. Audio

One of the world's most well-known atheists, Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith and The Moral Landscape. Dr Harris is cofounder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit… Audio

In a very wide-ranging conversation Diarmaid MacCulloch talks with Peter Biggs about religious belief in the modern world. As well as authoring a number of award-winning books- including Reformation… Audio

Work and Worship - Exploring religious diversity in New Zealand workplaces. Audio

New Age rap outfit Third3ye, part of the Young, Gifted and Broke collective, tell us about their tie-dyed and patchouli-scented take on hip hop. Audio

Dr Peter Lineham is an Associate Professor at Massey University who is an expert on religious history and he's done a study mapping Auckland's "religious geography". Audio

Catholic priest Father John O'Connor is of a mind that religion is not about to become extinct in NZ, especially in light of how people responded to last month's Christchurch earthquake. Audio

In Ideas this week we explore the history of the church known as the Salvation Army. Audio

Three panellists discuss their divergent views on the global and regional rise of religion and its impact on every-day lives, particularly on the vulnerable residents in war-torn parts of the world… Audio

This week looks at the evolution of evolutionary ideas on disciplines other than biology. Audio