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1.Mathamma: The Mother Goddess (www.cultureunplugged.com)
In the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, a young girl named Meena is raised in a long-entrenched tradition of community-sanctioned abuse. As a lower-caste girl, Meena can be forced into the role of a Mathamma (or Sacred Mother), a living goddess, and sexually abused by male villagers for blessings. As an adult, Meena fears for her own daughter Radha's safety. Village heads continue to forcibly select new Mathammas, usually between the ages of seven and 13. These girls are then publicly auctioned to men, and then dedicated to a life of sexual abuse. Afterwards, the Mathamma moves from home to home, where wives make way for her to share their beds with their husbands, considering the child rape a godly act. The HIV prevalence in these villages is unknown, but in the fall of 1995, Andra Pradesh reported an HIV infection rate of one in every two hundred people. Exposing the dark side of ancient traditions through the example of one victimized family, Mathamma leaves no stone unturned in speaking for the injustices committed in the name of faith.
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For The Bible Tells Me So (www.viddler.com)For the Bible Tells Me So is a 2007 documentary directed by Daniel G. Karslake about homosexuality and its perceived conflict with religion, as well as various interpretations of what the Bible says about same-sex sexuality. It also includes lengthy interview segments with several sets of religious parents (including former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane and the parents of Bishop V. Gene Robinson) regarding their personal experiences raising homosexual children, and also interviews with those (adult) children. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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3.God on the Brain (video.google.com)
Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy. Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology. The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them...
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Buddha's Lost Children (www.youtube.com)Documentary on an ex-Muy Thai fighter turned Buddhist after he experienced an overwhelming super-natural calm during Meditation..
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5.The Root of All Evil - Part 1 - The God Delusion (video.google.com)
Richard Dawkins is astounded that religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth based on hard evidence.
In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'. Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution. His first book, The Selfish Gene was an international bestseller.
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6.The Root of All Evil - Part 2 - The Virus of Faith (video.google.com)
In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children.
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7.The Life of Buddha (www.youtube.com)
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BBC - An Islamic History of Europe (Full Movie) (www.youtube.com)In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning.
Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilisation that Muslims brought to the West.
This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe.
His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance. (courtesy BBC)
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9.Jesus Camp (video.google.com)
Jesus Camp is a 2006 American documentary directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a Pentecostal/charismatic summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their "prophetic gifts" and being taught that they can "take back America for Christ."
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10.Prisoners of a White God (video.google.com)
A documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in South East Asia, the Prisoners of a White God, tells the story about a researcher, who investigates the activities of Christian missionaries and international development among the Akha peoples.
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11."Evangelists in the USA" -- from the UK's Channel 4 (video.google.com)
This is a Documentary taken from channel 4 on the evangelist's in the USA.
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Margaret Atwood on Religion Part1/3 (www.youtube.com) -
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The Pope And The Mafia Millions (www.youtube.com)
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