Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Elections, the Euros, revival, and betting on eternity.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

A cartoon depicts a slot machine opposite the Houses of Parliament

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In this episode, we make a nod to the events of the week as Joel Pierce asks if political practice can capture something heavenly; Sam Tomlin talks national identity amidst the Euros; Abigail Frymann Rouch asks whether we may be we moving beyond the secular scepticism of religion and James Sampson-Foster invites us to place a bet on our eternal destination.

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War & peace

4 November 2024

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Ziya Miral: global conflict and religion's role

Does religion shape violence or does violence shape religion?

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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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