#2 Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' and Hinduism: Esoterica Gone Exoteric

Some of the topics covered;

Silas and the motif of rebirth in religious conversion, in ritual and realisation.

The church of Saint-Sulpice and the Christian adoption/continuity of pagan sites and festivals: moral progression or moral regression?

'God's hand on earth': is religious violence a hypocritical contradiction or devout and faithful followers wielding God's power to uphold divine justice?

Natural philosophy, the birth of science and the political suppression of intellectual culture in medieval Europe: is anarchy the dharmic duty of the intelligentsia?

Why does matter have the categorical distinction of being feminine? -Mother Earth, neo-paganism, and devil worship in a hindu context.

Trying to understand Christian pascifism: voluntary victimhood or passive resistance?

And the Holy Grail: the eternal quest for universal spiritual emancipation.

The sound quality deteriorates at 48 minutes but picks up again at 1hr 5 mins. Sorry about that.