Dan Burstein has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Da Vinci Code.
The Da Vinci Code
Summary
The 92nd Street Y has gathered scholars and authorities to discuss the questions and issues raised in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. What are the implications for religion and private faith when talk about God moves into pop culture, and popular entertainment becomes a mode of education? Never has this topic been more relevant than when a book like The Da Vinci Code is treated as fact rather than fiction. Panelists also touch on the early Christian church, the role of women in the early church, the objectives of organizations like Opus Dei and how the Christian church has changed through the ages. Dan Burstein is an award-winning journalist, author, and venture capitalist, and is the editor of Secrets of the Code. Bart D. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and wrote The Truth Behind The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Linda Ruf is a spokeswoman for the Catholic group Opus Dei and has been a member of the group for more than 20 years. Phyllis Tickle is the former religion editor at Publishers Weekly, the author of more than two dozen books and an expert in the field of religion and popular culture. This event took place on February 27, 2005.
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Secrets of Angels, Demons, and Masons
Summary
Secrets of Angels, Demons, Masons is the ultimate guide to the secret societies of Dan Brown's thrillers. The program unravels the conspiracy theories brought to light in Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons. Brown raises questions about the age-old conflict between science and religion in a plot that pits a secret society known as the Illuminati against the Catholic Church. The first hour, "Secrets of Angels and Demons", goes inside the secretive world of Vatican City, questioning the existence of the bones of St. Peter, the unsolved death of John Paul I, and the elaborate rituals of the Vatican cardinals. As the clues and mysteries of Dan Brown's novel are explored, listeners gain an unprecedented glimpse into the top-secret world of the Catholic Church. Just as in Brown's The Da Vinci Code, we are forced to examine matters of faith in entirely new ways. The program's second hour, "Secrets of Masons", uncovers the truth about the Freemasons and explores its surprising role in the founding of America. Since the group's inception, the secrecy and selectiveness of Freemasonry has inspired conspiracy theories implicating Masons in numerous world events from the French and American Revolutions to FDR's New Deal and the Vatican Bank Scandal. Masons are often accused of plotting to create a New World Order, "pulling the strings" behind such powerful organizations as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund. "Secrets of Masons" looks at the infamous Illuminati's connection to the Freemasons, questioning whether this relationship still exists, as Dan Brown would have us believe in Angels and Demons.
©2005 Hidden Treasures Productions, Inc. (P)2005 Hidden Treasures Productions, Inc.