- Title: Beyond Belief: Religion On Trial
- Date: 21st September 1992
- Summary: Religion has always enjoyed a privileged place on TV. In this series of 3 progs, chaired by Denis Forman, those who do not believe are given a rare chance to answer back and put the case for Humanism. The philosopher Anne Kelleher charges the major religions with denigrating and brutalising women and by their attitudes to sex encouraging over-population & starvation. She brings evidence and witnesses to argue that values based on justice and the dignity of every human being, regardless of gender, should govern relationships between men and women and attitudes to sex, not outdated religious notions about sin and guilt. Distinguished barrister Anthony Scrivener QC leads for the defence, bringing evidence of religion s' promotion of family values and protection of weak and dispossessed. His witnesses testify, through their own lives, to the generosity and selflessness inspired by religious faith.
- Description:Three programmes dealing with rationalism and humanism in the religious sense as a coherent set of moral,social and aesthetic beliefs guiding the lives of millions of people. With Sir Denis Forman.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:PRODUCTION CENTRE PRODUCTIONS
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:21/09/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s