How do people personally experience religion and faith? Why do they believe what they believe, and is there any way for us to find a connection with people who have vastly different belief systems from our own? Author, scholar and Muslim American Reza Aslan immerses himself into different faiths and faith rituals around the world to explore these and other questions in “Believer,” a new CNN series debuting March 5 at 10 p.m.
In this spiritual adventure series, Aslan dives deep into faiths around the globe, from Scientology in the U.S. to Hindu asceticism in India to Santa Muerte in Mexico to an apocalyptic doomsday cult in Hawaii. By opening himself up to people in these faith traditions and asking them to open themselves up to him, Aslan seeks universal truths that he hopes will help viewers see different people less as “the other” and more as fellow human beings.
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