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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Carlos Eire | PBS

Duration: 08:01
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1431
Broadcast Date: Apr. 1, 2011

Reformation historian, award-winning memoirist, and Cuban emigre Carlos Eire says reading the medieval devotional book "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis was "a conversion experience."

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Post Date: April 2, 2011