Roberta Jones is a futurologist: she looks at the past to see into the future. In an era in which our society's core values are falling apart and we're really feeling the need to totally shake up our basic beliefs, Roberta Jones dives into old monuments, traditions, myths, and customs to find elements that strongly resonate with our world today.
Using these ancient treasures to help us picture a world that's more in tune with what we really need.
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Roberta Jones is a futurologist: she looks at the past to see into the future. In an era in which our society's core values are falling apart and we're really feeling the need to totally shake up our basic beliefs, Roberta Jones dives into old monuments, traditions, myths, and customs to find elements that strongly resonate with our world today.
Using these ancient treasures to help us picture a world that's more in tune with what we really need.
This podcast was produced wit the support of the "Regione Lazio".
When people think of the Madonna, wherever in the world they happen to be – even in Africa or Mexico, they are unlikely to picture the Madonna as black or Asian, Indian or brown, as Western tradition has created a careful and lasting propaganda of the image of the Virgin Mary with flawless white skin. But actually, there are around 74o Black Virgin Marys in Europe alone and some other black virgin Marys in other parts of the world such as the famous virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. In this episode I start our journey in Tindari, a town in Sicily because you can find there a very particular Black Madonna, representative of what the black Madonna has come to symbolise.
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Roberta Jones - Back to the future
Roberta Jones is a futurologist: she looks at the past to see into the future. In an era in which our society's core values are falling apart and we're really feeling the need to totally shake up our basic beliefs, Roberta Jones dives into old monuments, traditions, myths, and customs to find elements that strongly resonate with our world today.
Using these ancient treasures to help us picture a world that's more in tune with what we really need.
This podcast was produced wit the support of the "Regione Lazio".
