Fundamentalists
yesterday evening (tuesday 30th), 8.00-8.30pm (repeated 5.00pm, sunday), on bbc radio 4
we do do god (presented by edward kessler) includes …
“Woolf Institute director Ed Kessler examines the rise of fundamentalists in the three main Abrahamic religions – Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
He talks to faith leaders and adherents among some of the more strictly observant – the Jewish Haredi, the Muslim Salafis and the Christian Pentacostalists. He tries to get a sense of what the term ‘fundamentalist’ means in the context of these religious movements – to many, it conjures up frightening images of violence but, in its true sense, fundamentalism is really only a return to the early tenets and practices of these religions.”
including contributions from …
• rabbi herschel gluck
• rabbi reuven leigh of chabad
• dayan ivan binstock
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