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New episode: Seen & Unseen Aloud

Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks: the art of dying, the end of killing and the search for Martin Luther King.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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A dove rests on a wall in Gaza, 2021.
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This week, Lydia Dugdale celebrates All Saints Day by remembering the lost of art dying well; George Pitcher observes that simple calls for peace are often against the grain of power, yet many still yearn for it, even when faced with complexities and impossibilities; Ian Hamlin talks about the merging of stories and their power to inspire and change the world, as he continues on the trail to find out more about his hero.

Listen to a curated selection of the editor's top picks which caught our interest this week. We also release themed boxsets from time to time.
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Ziya Miral: global conflict and religion's role

Does religion shape violence or does violence shape religion?

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

a dirt barricade blocks a cross roads, behind which stands a roadside cross
A crossroads in Ukraine.
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Is John Lennon right, would all wars cease if religion were to vanish? And, finally, what is the theology of conflict? These are topical, real-time, questions – all of which are explored in this episode of GodPod, with the help of Dr Ziya Meral.

Ziya is a lecturer in International Studies and Deplomacy at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), researcher and advisor specialising in global conflict and the role of religion.

For Ziya’s book: How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa : Meral, Ziya: Amazon.co.uk: Books