Around the world in 80 faiths. Rituals. The Far East / presented by Peter Own Jones.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Salt, Siân., Director, Producer.

Jones, Peter Owen., Speaker.

British Broadcasting Corporation., Production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--East Asia.

Rites and ceremonies.

Ritual--East Asia.

Ritual.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 min.)

Other Title:

Far East

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2009.

Language Note:

Original language in English.

Summary:

Pete observes a purification ritual during the Shinto Oto Matsuri fire festival and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. Pete encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East, from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan to enlightening Taoist monks in the mountains of China. He also visits an obscure Shamanic sect in South Korea, and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. In Buddhist Thailand, he explores the meaning of non-attachment, and in Vietnam he comes under the spell of a divine eye, before giving money away to a mother goddess.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 11, 2014).

OCLC:

898083446