DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Exploring the roots of religion [videorecording] / The Teaching Company.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2009.

6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 134 p. ; 19 cm.).

Professor Hale takes you deep inside caves and crypts and leads you through vast deserts and ancient cities around the globe for a comprehensive look at specific religious archaeological sites around the world.

The great courses. Religion.

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Archaeology and religion.

Excavations (Archaeology)

Religion -- History.

Rites and ceremonies.

Ritual.

Feature films.

Instructional films

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Hale, John R., 1951-

Teaching Company.

"Course no. 3650."

36 lectures (30 min. each).

Course guidebook includes scope, outline, glossary, bibliography, suggested readings, and questions to consider for each lecture.

Producer, James Blandford ; editors, Rich Bernett, James Blandford.

Lecturer, John R. Hale, University of Louisville.

DVD, NTSC.

Part 1. Lecture 1. The roots of religious experience -- Lecture 2. Neanderthal burials at Shanidar -- Lecture 3. Hunting magic in sacred caves -- Lecture 4. Myths of the shaman -- Lecture 5. Realm of the Mother Goddess -- Lecture 6. Mysteries of the megaliths -- Lecture 7. Towers and tombs of Sumeria -- Lecture 8. Tomb of the first emperor of China -- Lecture 9. Feasting with the dead at Petra -- Lecture 10. Druid sacrifice at Lindow Moss? -- Lecture 11. Honoring ancestors in ancient Ohio -- Lecture 12. A Viking queen sails to eternity.

Part 2. Lecture 13. Dancing with bulls at Knossos -- Lecture 14. Oracle bones in ancient China -- Lecture 15. Sun and sexuality in early Scandinavia -- Lecture 16. Apollo speaks at Klaros -- Lecture 17. Chalice of blood in ancient Peru -- Lecture 18. Decoding rituals at Palenque -- Lecture 19. Temple of the Goddess on Malta -- Lecture 20. The Aten-- monotheism in Egypt -- Lecture 21. Deities of the Acropolis -- Lecture 22. Gods and pyramids at Teotihuacan -- Lecture 23. Sacred city on the Mississippi -- Lecture 24. Sun and shadow at Machu PIcchu.

Part 3. Lecture 25. Celestial gateway at Giza -- Lecture 26. Cosmic hub at Stonehenge -- Lecture 27. Desert lines at Nazca -- Lecture 28. Skywatchers at Chaco Canyon -- Lecture 29. Mountain of the Gods at Angkor -- Lecture 30. The stone heads of Easter Island -- Lecture 31. Tending Zoroaster's sacred fire in Iran -- Lecture 32. Writing the Dead Sea scrolls at Qumran -- Lecture 33. Taking religions underground at Rome -- Lecture 34. Forging iron at Jenne-jeno on the Niger -- Lecture 35. Carving monasteries at Ajanta in India -- Lecture 36. Faiths lost and found.

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