Peter Lineham

Philip Blackwood has been convicted of offending religion in distributing a flyer for a tapas bar in Burma, which featured a picture of Buddha wearing headphones. Audio

A religious studies expert says the Vatican's back-tracking about the Pope's comments on paedophile priests is undoubtedly damage control. Audio

Is Queen's Birthday a doomed holiday? If so, it wouldn't be the first time that days marking our ties to Britain have vanished from the calendar. Massey University history professor Peter Lineham… Audio

An expert on New Zealand's religious history says he is not surprised the country is becoming a less devout place. Audio

Associate Professor of History at Massey University's Albany campus, whose research focuses on religion in New Zealand life and history. His new book, Destiny: the Life and Times of a Self-Made… Audio

Underway right now is the first comprehensive census of churches in this country since early last century. The Mission Koru Report expects to reveal a surprising growth in the number of churches and… Audio

Wayne Brittenden takes an historic gaze back through some of his inherited cookbooks and finds it's not just the recipes that are reminiscent of another time. Dr Peter Lineham from Massey University's… Audio

The latest census is expected to show a further drop in attendance at mainstream church services. While the evangelical denominations generally fare much better, most of the traditional churches are… Audio

Professor Peter Lineham from Massey University is a specialist in religious history. He's been listening to that and joins us now. Audio

Peter Lineham teaches history at Massey University's Albany campus. He is a scholar whose interests cover a range of subject areas that can loosely be categorised under history and religion. The NZ… Audio

Regional Director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of History, at Massey University, talking about rugby as New Zealand's surrogate religion. Audio