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Religion and Ethics Newsweekly/ Season 5

Video Segment 1, Ground Zero/ Sacred place

Length: Approx. 7:45

Originally broadcast: December 28, 2001

This segment deals with the various reasons people visit Ground Zero.

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Video Segment 2, Coping with fear

Length: Approx. 6:25

Deals with various reasons we fear and ways we react

Originally broadcast: October 19, 2001

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Video Segment 3, Tragedy aftermath: Remembering the dead

Length: Approx: 5:00

Various ways we respond to death/especially when no body is available to the mourners.

Originally broadcast: October 26, 2001

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Video Segment 4, The Hajj

Length: Approx. 9:50

Deals with rites of passage, expressions of faith particularly of the Muslim faith

Originally broadcast: April 17, 1998

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Video Segment 5, Stations of the Cross

Length: Approx: 3:10

Another view of what a pilgrimage can be.

Originally broadcast: March 22, 2002

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Video Segment 6, Labyrinth

Length: Approx: 4:40

Considers the labyrinth as a form of pilgrimage

Originally broadcast: November 12, 1999

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Video Segment 7, Holy War

Length: Approx: 8:00

The role of jihad in the faith life of some Muslims

Originally broadcast: September 28, 2001

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Video Segment 8, Bosnia: Five years into peace

Length: Approx: 9:00

Deals with problems resulting from needs of different groups in the area

Originally broadcast: November 27, 2000

 

Video Segment 9, Reconciliation in Rwanda

Length: Approx: 8:30

Affects of colonialism on various ethnic groups of Rwanda and how the conflict came to a head in 1994.

Originally broadcast: March 15, 2001

 

Video Segment 10, Capital Punishment: Retribution or Justice?

Length: 7:00

Discusses various positions on the issue of capital punishment

Originally broadcast: May 11, 2001

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Video Segment 11, the Death Penalty

Length: 8:00

Deals with issues and problems of victims on death row.

Originally broadcast: June 30, 2000

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Video Segment 12, Virgin of Guadalupe

Length: 6:50

Deals with the apparition of Our Lady to Juan Diego and what Our Lady means to those who participate in the celebration.

Originally broadcast: December 17, 1999

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Video Segment 13, Latino Pentecostals

Length: 6:40

Focuses on the number of Hispanics leaving the Catholic Church for Pentecostal churches.

Originally broadcast: January 22, 1999

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Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, Season 6

Video Segment 1, Interfaith America/Muslims in America

Length: 9:14

A look at the experiences of American Muslims one year after the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Originally broadcast: September 13, 2002

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Video Segment 2, Exploring Religious America

Length: 13:57

A special report on religious diversity in the U.S. and how religious tolerance was tested in one suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.

Originally broadcast: April 26, 2002

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Video Segment 3, Pope John Paul II’s Interreligious Dialogue

Length: 3:23

John Allen, The National Catholic Reporter’s Vatican correspondent, discusses Catholic Church relations with other faiths.

Originally broadcast: January 25, 2002

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Video Segment 4, Profile: Diane Eck

Length: 7:14

A conversation with the author of “A New Religious America” about living with religious diversity and learning from other faiths.

Originally broadcast: June 22, 2001

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Video Segment 5, Religion in the Age of AIDS: AIDS and the African American Church

                               in the South.

Length: 10:00

In Mississippi, 28% of new HIV infections are reported among heterosexual black women. Should pastors offer people any counseling outside marriage? Does saying anything about safe sex condone behavior the bible forbids? It’s a real issue in the Deep south, especially in black churches, especially for black women.

Originally broadcast: January 11, 2002

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Video Segment 6, Religion in the Age of AIDS: AIDS prevention in Senegal

Length: 7:45

The AIDS pandemic has killed 17 million people in Africa and created 12 million orphans. In some countries more than a quarter of the adult population is infected. But in Senegal, a largely Muslim country, the rate of infection is barely 1%.

Originally broadcast: March 23, 2001

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Video Segment 7, Prayer, the language of Paradise: The Rosary

Length: 3:44

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.

Originally broadcast: October 18, 2002

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Video Segment 8, Prayer, the language of Paradise: Mandala

Length: 1:28

A glimpse at how and why a group of Tibetan  Buddhist monks create a mandala.

Originally broadcast: January 18, 2002

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Video Segment 9, Prayer, the language of Paradise: the Prayer of Jabez

Length: 5:25

A look at the meaning of a little-known, sentence-long prayer that has become a best seller.

Originally broadcast: November 2, 2001

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Video Segment 10, Prayer, the language of Paradise: Jewish Prayer on the High

                                Holydays.

Length: 3:28

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.

Originally broadcast: September 21, 2001

Video Segment 11, Prayer, the language of Paradise: Muslim Daily Prayers

Length: 2:22

An explanation of the Muslim practice of praying five times a day, one of the five pillars of Islam.

Originally broadcast: October 6, 2000

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Video Segment 12, Prayer, the language of Paradise: Praying with Icons

Length: 1:54

A look at how Orthodox Christians use icons to pray

Originally broadcast: September 24, 1999

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Video Segment 13, Business Ethics, Morality, and Vision: Corporate Ethics

Length: 7:38

Recent boardroom scandals have cost billions of dollars, ruined companies, hurt employees and shareholders, and shaken public confidence in corporate America.. But there are still companies where ethics remains an essential part of the business plan.

Originally broadcast: October 25, 2002

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Video Segment 14, Business Ethics, Morality, and Vision: Executive compensations

Length: 10:17

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.

Originally broadcast: June 21, 2002

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Video Segment 15, Death and Afterlife: Profile, Thomas Lynch

Length: 8:17

A profile of writer and funeral director Thomas Lynch, author of “The Undertaking”.

Originally broadcast: May 4, 2001

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Video Segment 16, Death and Afterlife: Holocaust Survivors: Crisis of Faith

Length: 10:04

A meditation on life, death, faith, and the Holocaust.

Originally broadcast: April 20, 2001

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Video Segment 17, Death and Afterlife: the ethics of Organ Donation

Length: 7:30

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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