Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three

The third episode - Part 3/8 - Africa
Pete Owen Jones continues his year long religious odyssey with a gruelling journey exploring the spiritual traditions of Africa. Pete sets off hoping to get a glimpse of man's first experience of the divine. His journey begins with the ancient practice of Voodoo in Benin, where Pete is confronted by ritual practices that contradict his own deeply held religious convictions. He is forced to decide whether he should even take part.

In the continent where all human life began, he travels to Botswana to meet the San Bushmen, inheritors of the earliest religious faith on earth. In South Africa he discovers surprising new developments in religious belief when he meets the members of the 12th Apostolic Church and is stunned to find Afrikaners who believe the world is about to come to an end. In Ethiopia he finds a group of one of the worlds youngest religions - Rastafarians who have set up a Utopian community in this harsh and unforgiving land.

It is a six-part series is on BBC Two, Tuesday's at 9pm.
In case you missed the third episode, you can watch it below, split into ten minute segments for easy viewing. Episodes one and two are also on my blog in case you've missed the series so far.

Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 1/6


Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 2/6


Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 3/6


Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 4/6


Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 5/6


Around the World in 80 Faiths - Episode Three - Part 6/6