BBC World Service - Heart and Soul

Bolivia - Day Of The Skulls

Andres Schipani reports on a colourful collision of ancient indigenous ritual with Catholicism in La Paz, involving human skulls

Matt Wells explores how the Tea Party movement in the US may affect the traditional Christian influence on conservative politics

Linda Pressly traces the development of a controversy that engulfed New York and the US in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Jessica Alpert discovers The Whoop - a musical, emotional, non-intellectual method of preaching the Word of God.

Zaiba Malik explores the work, and the social revolution, of the Mourchidat - female Muslim leaders in Morocco.

A look at how people in Australia are employing Buddhist ethics and practices in their workplaces to make work more satisfying.

Daniel Gordon looks at the pilgrimage to Lizhensk, resting place of the Rabbi who popularised Hasidic Judaism in Poland.

Edward Stourton asks how Catholics negotiate their own moral paths in a church which many feel is deeply discredited.

Tom Esslemont explores the astonishing renaissance of Georgia's Orthodox Church following the end of Communism.

Christopher Landau tells the story of the rapid growth of state-sanctioned Christianity in China, and its impact on society.