Biography documentary series beliefs

Oprah Winfrey's new documentary series, "Belief," is taking viewers across six continents as it explores how intimate journeys of faith and spiritual practices bind people across the world.

"There's a deep yearning for -- and that's what 'Belief' speaks to -- the yearning for something greater than yourself.

Because if you're only living a life for yourself, you will find that you end up feeling lost many times," Winfrey said Wednesday on "CBS This Morning."

Reshma Thakkar, a Hindu Indian-American woman from Chicago, is one of the characters features in the seven-night series.

Thakkar heads to the banks of the Ganges River in India for Kumbh Mela, the world's largest spiritual gathering, asking herself whether she has to have a religion or if being a good person is enough.

Biography documentary series beliefs

"I think Reshma speaks for the voices of an entire generation," Winfrey said. "The latest Pew survey shows that like a third of millennials, they believe in nothing. They believe in nothing. So they're also