On CNN’s Believer with Reza Aslan tonight, Aslan heads to Jerusalem to immerse himself in the world of the Haredim and explore the tensions between this isolated group and secular Jews in Israel. This is personal for Aslan. In 1979 he fled Iran as his home country went from secular to oppressive and religiously run.
On tonight’s Believer with Reza Aslan, our spiritual adventurer Reza takes us to sunny Mexico for an exploration of their seemingly dark faith of Santa Muerte. Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, sees the worship of a female skeleton deity, and is a twist on one of the largest Christian faiths, Catholicism. But despite its apparent focus on death,
CNN Believer host Reza Aslan looks at the controversial Church of Scientology which some claim is undergoing a reformation. Reformists inside Scientology believe their faith was taken over by a self-appointed megalomaniac in the form of David Miscavige. A public figure famously aligned with actor Tom Cruise, reformationists believe he has perverted the intentions of the faith created by novelist L.
“What draws me to Vodou is that there’s no division between the body and spirit…there is no boundary between them,” says Reza Aslan of this week’s trip to Haiti on CNN’s Believer with Reza Aslan. In a gruesome moment a little bit later in the episode, sensitive viewers need to be forewarned that there is
“It’s not every day you get to interview a doomsday leader,” notes Reza Aslan. This week on his show Believer with Reza Aslan he heads to balmy Hawaii, an unlikely place for a cult obsessed with the Earth’s annihilation and imminent death. The episode is titled Doomsday Cult in Hawaii and sees us travel with