Spiritual Practices

Britain's foremost scholar of world religion, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and founder of the Charter for Compassion. Audio

Scientists claim they have the first hard evidence of a patient hearing resuscitation instructions while he was dead. Audio

One of the world's most well-known atheists, Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith and The Moral Landscape. Dr Harris is cofounder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit… Audio

If you had a guardian angel, would it make you more or less likely to take risks? Audio

How do you turn stressed middle aged men into happier individuals? An Auckland yoga teacher has come up with an idea. Audio

Landscape and urban design consultant, founder of Greenstone Design, and author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens Audio

Pule-tasi or niqab? Like the diversity of our cultures, New Zealand's dress code is changing all the time. These days you can wear your hijab to work without question, Lynda Chanwai-Earle decided to… Audio

Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel from Rutgers University in New Jersey runs a course for first year students called Bruce Springsteen's Theology. The course analyses Springsteen lyrics for their biblical… Audio

Professor of Utopian Studies at the University of Nottingham and author of books and articles on the topic of political utopianism, who delivered the 2014 Robert Chapman Lecture at the University of… Audio

It's a troubling time right now for Māori carvers. Only a small number of young artists are being trained and a lack of work sees many of them leaving the country and older carvers simply giving up… Audio

The architect of Christchurch's cardboard cathedral Shigeru Ban providing shelter, community centers and spiritual places in post disaster zones. Audio

This week, Sonia Sly speaks to Auckland-based sculptor and artist Caroline Robinson, she may have started her career in the World of Wearable arts, but for the past 16 years her focus has been on… Audio

Professor of Sociology at King's College, London, whose research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience. He is visiting New Zealand to talk at the Competing… Audio

Writer on historic and contemporary China whose first book is The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention. Audio

Auckland-based ethnomusicologist and composer who has been collecting audio/visual documentation of indigenous music and ecstatic performance in west India for the British Library World Music… Audio

If you knew more or less when you were going to die, what would you do? One Auckland man faces up to that prospect… and he talks to David Steemson for Spiritual Outlook. Audio

Poet, singer-songwriter, teacher and occasional broadcaster who is currently writer-in-residence at Victoria University, and just had a new poetry collection published, Waha/Mouth. Audio

There are many ways to deal with grief, here's one Aucklander's story. Audio

Professor of Creative Writing at University of Bath Spa, and author of short stories, non-fiction and seven novels, most recently the novel, The Emperor Waltz. Audio

In a very wide-ranging conversation Diarmaid MacCulloch talks with Peter Biggs about religious belief in the modern world. As well as authoring a number of award-winning books- including Reformation… Audio