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Religion and Ethics
Newsweekly/ Season 5
Video Segment 1, Ground Zero/ Sacred place
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This segment deals with the various reasons people visit Ground Zero.
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Video Segment 2, Coping with fear
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Deals with various reasons we fear and ways we react
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Video Segment 3, Tragedy aftermath: Remembering the dead
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Various ways we respond to death/especially when no body is available to the mourners.
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Video Segment 4, The Hajj
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Deals with rites of passage, expressions of faith particularly of the Muslim faith
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Video Segment 5, Stations of the Cross
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Another view of what a pilgrimage can be.
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Video Segment 6, Labyrinth
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Considers the labyrinth as a form of pilgrimage
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Video Segment 7, Holy War
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The role of jihad in the faith life of some Muslims
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Deals with problems resulting from needs of different groups in the area
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Video Segment 9, Reconciliation in
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Affects of colonialism on various ethnic groups of
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Video Segment 10, Capital Punishment: Retribution or Justice?
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Discusses various positions on the issue of capital punishment
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Video Segment 11, the Death Penalty
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Deals with issues and problems of victims on death row.
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Video Segment 12, Virgin of Guadalupe
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Deals with the apparition of Our Lady to Juan Diego and what Our Lady means to those who participate in the celebration.
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Video Segment 13, Latino Pentecostals
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Focuses on the number of Hispanics leaving the Catholic Church for Pentecostal churches.
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Religion and Ethics
Newsweekly, Season 6
Video Segment 1, Interfaith America/Muslims in
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A look at the experiences of American Muslims one year after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
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Video Segment 2, Exploring Religious
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A special report on religious diversity in the
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Video Segment 3, Pope John Paul II’s Interreligious Dialogue
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John Allen, The National Catholic Reporter’s Vatican correspondent, discusses Catholic Church relations with other faiths.
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Video Segment 4, Profile: Diane Eck
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A conversation with the author of “A New Religious America” about living with religious diversity and learning from other faiths.
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Video Segment 5, Religion in the Age of AIDS: AIDS and the
in the South.
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In
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Video Segment 6, Religion in the Age of AIDS: AIDS
prevention in
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The AIDS pandemic has killed 17 million people in
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Video Segment 7, Prayer, the language of
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A mother and her daughter describe what it means to say the rosary, the Catholic tradition of repetitive prayers and meditation on the life of Jesus using a special string of beads.
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Video Segment 8, Prayer, the language of
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A glimpse at how and why a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks create a mandala.
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Video Segment 9, Prayer, the language of
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A look at the meaning of a little-known, sentence-long prayer that has become a best seller.
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Video Segment 10, Prayer, the language of
Holydays.
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At Yom Kippur on the Day of Atonement, the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, the cantor leads the congregation in ancient, sung prayer, pleading for God’s forgiveness, and talks about prayer during the High Holy Days.
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Video Segment 11, Prayer, the language of
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An explanation of the Muslim practice of praying five times a day, one of the five pillars of Islam.
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Video Segment 12, Prayer, the language of
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A look at how Orthodox Christians use icons to pray
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Video Segment 13, Business Ethics, Morality, and Vision: Corporate Ethics
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Recent boardroom scandals have cost billions of dollars,
ruined companies, hurt employees and shareholders, and shaken public confidence
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Video Segment 14, Business Ethics, Morality, and Vision: Executive compensations
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How much should a chief executive be paid? Anything he or she can get? Or is there something morally wrong with $50 or $100 million salaries, especially when the value of a company’s stock is going down? A look at why so many American are paid so much.
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Video Segment 15, Death and Afterlife: Profile, Thomas Lynch
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A profile of writer and funeral director Thomas Lynch, author of “The Undertaking”.
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Video Segment 16, Death and Afterlife: Holocaust Survivors: Crisis of Faith
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A meditation on life, death, faith, and the Holocaust.
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Video Segment 17, Death and Afterlife: the ethics of Organ Donation
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A story about promoting organ donations by paying for donor’s funeral expenses. How sacred is the human body, living or dead?
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