Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam

British artist Hughie O'Donoghue and psychologist Jonathan Haidt explore memory, myth, and morality.

Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman of Glenstal Abbey in Ireland, an advocate of an alternative church to replace the Catholic church in Ireland, meets with psychologist Sanford Drob, whose engagement with Jewish mysticism and psychology has led to three books on interpretations of the Kabbalah.

Philosophers Richard Kearney and Joseph Prabhu explore the interstices of the world religions in an attempt to find common ground.

Is faith a function of the individual or of society?

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche was the first lama to bring the Bön dzogchen teachings to the West. He has since returned as a pilgrim to Tibet and in particular Mt. Kailash and the ancient Bön kingdom of Zhang Zhung. The award-winning poet Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel, which explores the knife-edge where Islam and Christianity meet.

The feminist icon and British-born Tibetan Buddhist nun engage on questions of faith and the role of women in the Buddhist monastic tradition.