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04092agm a2200601Ia 4500 001 F29BBF10897511EC94F7A2945EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220209010018 007 vd cvaizu 008 080709p20072004nju060 vleng d 020 $a 1421385872 020 $a 9781421385877 028 02 $a Item#: BVL38698 035 $a (OCoLC)233594168 040 $a SYB $c SYB $d SYB $d IX2 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $b eng 245 00 $a Shadows of doubt: $b the roots of religious disbelief / $h [DVD] / $c presented by Jonathan Miller, produced and directed by Richard Denton ; 116 films for BBC. 246 3 $a Roots of religious disbelief / $h [DVD] 246 1 $i Title on opening frame: $a Shadows of doubt / $h [DVD] 246 1 $i Title on container : $a Atheism, a rough history of disbelief / $h [DVD] 260 $a Princeton, NJ : $b Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $c c2007. 300 $a 1 videodisc (60 min.) : $b sd., col. ; $c 4 3/4 in. 440 0 $a Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief 500 $a Publisher's no.: 38698-K. 500 $a Originally produced in 2004. 500 $a "BBC Active"--Container. 505 00 $t Beginning of atheism $t Belief versus knowledge -- $t Psychological and social ideas of belief -- $t Beginning of atheism 505 0 $a Shadows of Doubt: the roots of religious disbelief -- Atheism: a rough history of disbelief --- In this program, Jonathan Miller visits Ground Zero to consider the religious implications of 9/11. "Events such as this bring one fact-to-face with the consequences, both social and political, of belief in the divine, the supernatural, the holy, the sacred, and the transcendent--ideas that I, like many others, find alien, uncongenial, and, to be frank, almost unintelligible," says Miller. He then searches for evidence of the first unbelievers in ancient Greece and examines some of the modern theories of why people have always tended to believe in mythology, mysticism, and magic. Writers Arthur Miller and Gore Vidal, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, historian Geoffrey Lloyd, anthropologist Pascal Boyer, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, and physicist Steven Weinberg are featured. Original BBCW broadcast title: Shadows of Doubt." ---Cover Item#: BVL38698 508 $a Photography, Daniel Rohrer; music, Evelyn Glennie; editor, Richard Fretwell. 511 1 $a Bernard Hill, voice of readings. 520 $a "Due to the radical politicization of religious belief in the 21st century and the attendant threat to the freedom of thought that underpins disbelief, atheist Jonathan Miller feels prompted to balance the discourse. ... In this program, Miller visits Ground Zero to consider the religious implications of 9/11." --- Container. 520 0 $a Due to the radical politicization of religious belief in the 21st century and the attendant threat to the freedom of thought that underpins disbelief, atheist Jonathan Miller feels prompted to balance the discourse. In this unprecedented three-part series, Miller, a genial and deeply intelligent disbeliever, is joined by some of the worlds most distinguished thinkers as together they sift through the history of atheism and question the labels of disbelief. A complex, engaging, and highly provocative inquiry. A BBCW Production. --- Publishers description 538 $a DVD. 546 $a Soundtrack in English with optional English subtitles ; closed-captioned. 650 0 $a DVD. 650 0 $a DVDs. 650 0 $a Documentary television programs. 650 0 $a Atheism $x History. 700 10 $a Miller, Jonathan,M $d 1934- 700 1 $a Denton, Richard 700 1 $a Fretwell, Richard. 700 1 $a Glennie, Evelyn. 700 1 $a Hill, Bernard. 700 1 $a Rohrer, Daniel. 710 2 $a 116 films (Firm) 710 2 $a British Broadcasting Company 710 2 $a Films for the Humanities (Firm) 710 2 $a BBC Active (Firm) 941 $a 1 945 $a dvv 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20220209010222.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F29BBF10897511EC94F7A2945EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IX2Initiate Another SILO Locator Search