[Faith] Episode 6: Jonathan Jong - Faith & the Fear of Death

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The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode of Faith for Normal People, social psychologist Jonathan Jong joins Pete and Jared to talk about the history and science behind death anxiety and how the reality of mortality impacts people within and beyond the Christian faith tradition. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.7	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.5	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:06.5	Hey folks, welcome to this episode of Faith for Normal People.
0:16.9	And today we're talking to Jonathan Jong about faith and the fear of death.
0:22.3	You might remember our interview with Jonathan from season 6 of the Bible for Normal People.
0:27.4	And if not, you know, folks, it was a great episode.
0:29.6	We highly recommend listening to that episode for more really great insights into how science
0:35.8	and religion interact.
0:37.2	Right.
0:38.2	But for this episode as a reminder, Jonathan is Research Fellow Assistant Professor at
0:43.0	Coventry University Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.
0:47.1	He's on Twitter.
0:48.1	He has a new book experimenting with religion, the new science of belief, and you're getting
0:52.1	the preview of an upcoming attraction.
0:54.2	His new book is called The Death, so to speak.
0:56.2	His new book on death, which isn't coming out for quite some time, but you can see the
1:01.3	seeds of it in an article he wrote.
1:03.4	And we're going to put the link to that article in the show notes.
1:05.6	It's good stuff.
1:06.6	All right, folks, let's get into it.
1:08.3	There is a kind of glibness about the way we deal with death right now, which is we
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