From The Long Search to Believer

What is it about?

Television has been one of the major developments in the extension of the human senses over the last hundred years. When we watch television, our eyes and ears stretch, metaphorically speaking, to other times and places. Television can make us see, hear, and experience things that are not near us at all. But television does not present the world to us as it is. A TV programme reflects the prevailing thought of the time it was made, Financial and political restrictions, and the personal views of the creators. Television does not simply transmit the actions of people in front of the camera, it also shapes the people watching it at home. Television determines what we experience, and thereby what we can experience. That includes experiencing religion. Television can bring us to a mass by the Pope in Rome. It can show us Muslims during the hajj, or Hindus at the Kumbh Mela. How television presents religion reflects contemporary ways of thinking about, researching and presenting religion. Let us consider the television documentary about religion

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Photo by Olena Sergienko on Unsplash