S1, E3: Secularization in the Netherlands: Exploring the Landscape
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David Boogerd is a journalist working for Dutch public television and radio. Since 2019 he presents a weekly podcast about religion that has become highly popular. In this podcast, together with missiologist Stefan Paas, Boogerd interviews religious leaders, philosophers, psychologists, journalists, and politicians about secularization and its effect on Dutch society. With Boogerd we talk about the search for meaning and the lack of community. What have five years of interviews with both religious and completely areligious conversation partners taught him about life in a post-Christian society?
If you want to hear Boogerd and Paas in action, they interviewed in English the British historian Tom Holland, who after writing bestsellers about the Greeks, Romans, and Islam, turned his attention to Christianity. In his massive Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World Holland describes as a non-believer the impact Christianity had on the West, and on himself.
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