Past Programs
Rites and Ritual - 2004
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Chinese in Australia
28/11/2004
From the 1850s onwards, the Chinese came to Australia as gold diggers and indentured labourers. They built "Joss Houses" or temples wherever they went.
Wizards
17/10/2004
Harry Potter is the latest version of the dark art of sorcery. Alan Baker tells the history of Wizardry.
The Delphic Oracle
08/08/2004
The Oracle of Delphi, which dates back more than 3000 years, was the most important shrine in ancient Greece.
Was There Religion in the Greco-Roman World?
20/06/2004
The classical world knew gods and goddesses, cults, and sacrificial rites, but it did not know 'religion'.
The Catholic Mass
11/04/2004
As far back as the 4th Century the Mass referred to the Eucharist and has therefore been the most important part of the liturgy. The performance of the Mass has undergone some changes, particularly after the liberal teachings of Vatican II in the 1960s. But the Vatican has recently issued new guidelines aimed at making the Mass more uniform. Paul Stenhouse discusses the history and development of the Catholic Mass.
W.B.Yeats: Poet and Magus
21/03/2004
The occult involvement of W.B. Yeats was a sustaining element of his life and poetry, although scholars have largely downplayed this fact. Susan Johnston Graf, whose interest in the occult led her to the Magical Diaries of the Irish bard, reveals the complex of ideas and practices which gave his poetry a layer of meaning often hidden to the reader.
