CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search V

Presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Buddhism: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan (52 min; English; dvd)

If the Buddha of India met the Buddha of Japan, would they recognize each other? To find out, this film talks to the staff in a Tokyo restaurant who keep regular Zen meditation schedules as part of their job, then on to the classical Zen calligraphy, sword fighting, archery and tea ceremony

 

African Religions: Zulu Lion (51 min; English; dvd)

Film on the Zulu Independent Churches in South Africa. When Christian missionaries took the Gospel to Africa they also tried to suppress African religion and subvert African culture with their own. But since World War I, and with increasing vigour in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost religious identity and have been forming independent churches with their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser devotion to Christ

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)