Soul Search
Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Recipes for Ramadan and female solidarity in Afghanistan
Is there a recipe that sums up your story or personal history? As Muslims around the world observe Ramadan, one family is observing the holy month in Australia for the first time. For them, their rec…
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Sun 03 Apr 2022
Gods: from Ancient Greece to the Antipodes
What did religious life look like in Ancient Greece? Find out how the gods played a role in everything from daily life to outcomes on the battlefield. Then, fast forward to just before federation in …
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Sun 27 Mar 2022
Art after religion? Artmaking as a spiritual practice
Can the practice of artmaking be a religious ritual? A contemporary fresco painter, Sarah Tomasetti, and a philosopher, Dr Lexi Eikelboom, explore the ways in which art has big things in common with …
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Sun 20 Mar 2022
Hirini Kaa: Māori and Christian ideas of the sacred, reciprocity, and spiritual flourishing
“We can’t have a secular Māori culture. It just doesn’t work for us, it’s not how we view the world.” Third generation Anglican minister, Rev Dr Hirini Kaa, has written a book, Te Hāhi Mihinare: The …
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Sun 13 Mar 2022
International Women's Day: Liberating religion from Australia to West Papua
To mark International Women's Day, we hear from two remarkable women – worlds apart – on their experiences of liberating religion and women from within their religious and cultural contexts.
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Sun 06 Mar 2022
Reflections on Lent and what ‘living with COVID’ means for the spiritual life
How do we live well in times of crisis? Whether it's a global pandemic or a more personal dilemma, two of Australia's leading spiritual guides share their thoughts on how to make it through difficult…
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Sun 27 Feb 2022
Prayer, Peacemaking and Reconciliation: Desmond Tutu's life and legacy
He was the moral conscience of South Africa, a hero in the struggle against apartheid, and one of the spiritual giants of our time. The legacy of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lives on th…
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Sun 20 Feb 2022
Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh: Founder of engaged Buddhism and father of mindfulness
Dr Martin Luther King Jr called him an 'Apostle of Peace' when nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. To many, he's known as the Buddhist monk who introduced the practice of mi…
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Sun 13 Feb 2022
Re-enchanting China: The resurgence of popular religion
How secular, or not, is China today? As many of us celebrate Lunar New Year, Soul Search heads to China. Professor Mayfair Yang discusses the resurgence of popular religion in China – from local cult…
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Sun 06 Feb 2022
The word and the pen: Writers on faith, fiction and grace in the ordinary
Francis Spufford is a storyteller who sees grace and beauty in the grimiest and grittiest of places. He challenges us to look closely and catch a glimpse of something wildly precious and extraordinar…
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Sun 30 Jan 2022
Kate Bowler on Mennonites, megachurches, and why there's no cure for being human
How Kate Bowler, a self-described incurable optimist and expert on the American prosperity gospel, faced the biggest challenge of her life – which upended everything she knew about health, wealth and…
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Sun 23 Jan 2022
The wisdom of deep listening: Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and Fleur Magick Dennis
Many Indigenous languages have a word that means something like ‘deep listening’. In Ngan'gikurunggurr, a Northern Territory language, that word is dadirri. We hear from renowned Aboriginal elder and…
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Sun 16 Jan 2022
Seeking the simple life: from everyday economics to meditation
Do you ever look around and think, there must be a better way to do life, here? We’re meeting people asking the big question of how to live well in the world as we find it. Hear from Dr Jonathan Corn…
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Sun 09 Jan 2022
The Muslim Cameleers: The lives and legacies of Australia's little-known outback pioneers
Muslim cameleers have a rich history in Australia – that you may not have heard much about. They're the men who transformed the economic, cultural and spiritual life of many outback communities at th…
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Sun 02 Jan 2022
Casper ter Kuile: How everyday practices build joyful belonging
Meredith Lake chats to podcaster and author Casper ter Kulie whose been thinking about a big question: How do we make meaning as communities, and deepen our sense of connection to one another?
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Sun 26 Dec 2021
Jane Goodall on humanity and hope
Acclaimed ethologist and 2021 Templeton Prize winner, Jane Goodall, tells us about the many teachers who have gifted her with lessons on humanity and hope: from her childhood reading tree to her firs…
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Sun 19 Dec 2021
How's your soul? A look back at 2021
It has been quite the year for many of us — but what's helped you through? What everyday wisdom and practices have nourished you and been good for your soul? Hear the answers to these questions and m…
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Sun 12 Dec 2021
From Sri Lanka to Australia: how women are remaking Buddhism
Join Dr Meredith Lake and Suvira Bhikkhuni as they trace the revival of the ordination of Theravada women — one of the most important recent reforms within global Buddhism.
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Sun 05 Dec 2021
Love, Beauty and Solitude: Translating Rilke with Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
At the turn of the 20th Century, a teenage military cadet and budding poet began a correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke. The young man expected some guidance and criticism from the great German poe…
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Sun 28 Nov 2021
Much Ado About Religion
Shakespeare's world was marked by social change, spiritual tumult and cosmic disorientation – Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne, Europeans were exploring the Americas, and a heliocentric model of o…
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Sun 21 Nov 2021
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