This episode: Peter encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East, from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan to enlightening Taoist monks in the mountains of China. He visits an obscure Shamanic sect in South Korea, and finds out how war helped to create the biggest church in the world. In Buddhist Thailand he explores the meaning of non-attachment, and in Vietnam he comes under the spell of a divine eye, before giving money away to a mother goddess. Faith 11: Japanese Shinto: Witnesses the cleansing, Shinto fire festival of Shingū, Wakayama, Japan. -- Faith 12: Buddhism, The Naked Man festival – Visits the Buddhist fertility festival at Okayama, Japan. -- Faith 13: Hindu street shrine – Visits a busy, popular Hindu shrine in downtown Bangkok used by Buddhist worshippers. -- Faith 14: Theravada Buddhism – Interviews a monk of Theravada Buddhism, describing its importance in Thailand. -- Faith 15: Confucianism – Looking at the Confucian religion within communist China. -- Faith 16: Chinese Taoism – Interviews a solitary Taoist monk on Mount Hua, China about Taoism. -- Faith 17: Korean Pentecostalism: Reflects on the rise of Pentecostalism in South Korea and visits the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's largest congregation. -- Faith 18: Korean Shamanism – Visits a shaman in rural South Korea and reflects on the possible revival of Korean shamanism. -- Faith 19: Cao Dai – Visits the headquarters of the recently created religion of Cao Dai at Tay Ninh, Vietnam. -- Faith 20: Mother Goddess – Attends a ceremony celebrating the Vietnamese spirit religion of the Mother Goddess. [Info from Wikipedia entry]

Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year.