Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Plague narratives and Ebola
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Plague narratives and Ebola
How are religious plague narratives affecting the responses to the Ebola outbreak?
Throughout history, people have sought explanations for such deadly epidemics. Pre scientific societies thought that plagues were a punishment from the gods who were displeased with human behaviour. We have a better understanding of the causes and effects of disease today, but such ideas persist in many quarters and can still have a subconscious influence on contemporary attitudes to illness.
Ernie Rea is joined by Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Leverhulme early careers research fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University; the Rev Monsignor Robert J Vitillo, special Advisor on Health and HIV at the Catholic organisation Caritas International; and Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University.
Producer: Rosie Dawson.
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.4
9797 ratings
How are religious plague narratives affecting the responses to the Ebola outbreak?
Throughout history, people have sought explanations for such deadly epidemics. Pre scientific societies thought that plagues were a punishment from the gods who were displeased with human behaviour. We have a better understanding of the causes and effects of disease today, but such ideas persist in many quarters and can still have a subconscious influence on contemporary attitudes to illness.
Ernie Rea is joined by Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Leverhulme early careers research fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University; the Rev Monsignor Robert J Vitillo, special Advisor on Health and HIV at the Catholic organisation Caritas International; and Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University.
Producer: Rosie Dawson.
More shows like Beyond Belief
View all
Global News Podcast
7,740 Listeners
More or Less
884 Listeners
Newshour
1,048 Listeners
In Our Time
5,517 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,788 Listeners
Witness History
971 Listeners
In Our Time: History
1,871 Listeners
In Our Time: Culture
609 Listeners
In Our Time: Religion
285 Listeners
Arts & Ideas
300 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,834 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,085 Listeners
Desert Island Discs
2,050 Listeners
Inside Health
97 Listeners
Moral Maze
55 Listeners
The Life Scientific
238 Listeners
All in the Mind
63 Listeners
Word of Mouth
59 Listeners
The Briefing Room
64 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,216 Listeners
The Missing Cryptoqueen
1,070 Listeners
Americast
765 Listeners
The Bomb
1,035 Listeners
Radical with Amol Rajan
48 Listeners