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Living with Each Other
Neil MacGregor concludes his series on how shared beliefs have shaped societies.
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The Search for a State
The attempts of some faiths to establish a state of their own
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Turning the Screw
A focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state
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Living with No Gods
Neil MacGregor focuses on societies which aimed to live without religious beliefs
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Ruling with the Gods
The relationship between gods and the earthly rulers with a heavenly mandate
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Gods Living Together
How faiths co-exist in India
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Global Gods, Local Needs
How gods can reach new communities and faiths adapts
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The Other Side of the Leaf
The societies who believe that they share the landscape with invisible co-inhabitants
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Living with One God
How one god became central to worship in ancient Babylon and Egypt
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Living with Many Gods
The role and expression of beliefs with a focus on societies living with many gods
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Rejecting the Image
Focussing on the word: a yad is used to follow the text during readings from the Torah
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Change Your Life
Examining images of the crucifixion of Christ and a serene figure of Buddha
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The Making of Meaning
How do we begin to understand the original intention of ancient art?
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Replicating the Divine
The making of divine images such as Russian Orthodox icons and the Hindu goddess Durga
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The Protectoresses
Shared beliefs around Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico and the goddess Artemis of Ephesus
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Festivals
Festivals and their role in shaping a communal identity
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To Be a Pilgrim
Pilgrimage and its role in Christianity, Buddhism and Islam
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Holy Killing
This Aztec knife, dating from around 1500, had a brutal purpose - human sacrifice
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Gifts to the Gods
Why offerings to Gods became part of cultural practice for the Muisca population
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The House of God
The temple designed and formed in Mesopotamia about 4000 years ago to be a house of god
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The Power of Song
Kirchenpelz was not just 'Sunday Best' it showed your allegiance to the Lutheran Church
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Lines of Communication
Prayer is both a highly individualized activity and a profoundly communal act
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Becoming an Adult
Human rites of passage, that mark the transition from childhood to adulthood
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Mother and Child
How societies and communities seek to protect the newly-born and their mothers
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Living with the Dead
Deceased ancestors had great wisdom and could be called upon to help key decision-makers
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Dependence or Dominion?
How nature and seasonal change shaped shared beliefs from the Yupik people to Egyptians
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Here Comes the Sun
The importance of the sun, from the very earliest days of humanity
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Water of Life and Death
How water became an essential part of religious practise in Christianity, Islam, Judaism
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Fire and State
Many societies have seen the mesmerizing phenomenon of fire as a symbol of the divine
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The Beginnings of Belief
Through the ancient Lion Man sculpture Neil MacGregor explores the role of shared beliefs





























