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Uploaded 24-08-23

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The Hungry Ghost Festival in China is held on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month. It's a time when it's believed that restless ghosts roam the earth. During this festival, people pay homage to these deceased ancestors and other wandering spirits, seeking to appease them. Families often prepare offerings of food and drink, and make ritualized items such as joss paper (hell money) and incense to honor the departed souls. These offerings are meant to satisfy the 'hungry ghosts,' preventing them from bringing misfortune to the living. Performances, including opera and puppet shows, are held to entertain both the living and the spiritual guests.

Bibliography:
Stephen Teiser, "The Ghost Festival in Medieval China," 1988.

Mu-Chou Poo, "Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China," 2022.

Ingmar Heise, "For Buddhas, families, and ghosts: the transformations of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma Assembly in southeast China," in "Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China," 2012.

Hong Yin Chan, "The Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore: Getai (Songs on Stage) in the Lunar Seventh Month," Religions 2020. 11(7), 356.

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Co-written by Dr. David McConeghy, scholar of religion in the United States. Follow him on Twitter @dmcconeghy.
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Uploaded 27-03-20

American Civil Religion Series:
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49n90lWi0s&feature=youtu.be
Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4AHNAnSbCc&feature=youtu.be

Is a secular ritual comparable to a religious ritual? Can we equate national symbols like flags and parades to religious symbols? This video argues: "yes." The American flag functions like a sacred symbol in American public life. The NFL anthem protest of 2016 demonstrates the various ways that Americans impute sacred significance to the American flag.

Further reading:
Benjamin Zeller, https://religiondispatches.org/why-kaepernicks-refusal-to-stand-was-an-act-of-religious-dissent/

Brian Britt, "Taking a Knee as Critical Civil Religion," https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/taking-knee-critical-civil-religion

Leah Pannell, https://religiondispatches.org/american-christians-dont-understand-protest/

Media:
Vintage Pledge of Allegiance photograph: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001703605/



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The Gospel of Judas caused a huge stir when National Geographic published it back in 2006. But to this day, misconceptions about this text abound. Who wrote this text? And what does it really say?

Uploaded 21-06-16

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Gospel of Jesus' Wife. Authentic or Forged?

Uploaded 08-03-15

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Qumran is a small settlement on the west shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and how they were connected to the Dead Sea Scrolls. All of the footage that you see comes from my trip there in Spring 2018.

Uploaded 20-09-18

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Bibliography:
Most of my data came from Jodi Magness' "The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls," 2002.

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Qumran Dining Room: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qumran_refectoire_locus_77.jpg

Scriptorium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qumran_L30_scriptorium.jpg



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Uploaded 14-04-21

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As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the origins of Hebrew and its relationship with Canaanite dialects in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The episode will explore archaeological artifacts such as an inscription from Izbet Sarteh in Israel, which may be one of the earliest inscriptions of the Hebrew language.

Producer: Andrew M. Henry
Academic Consultant: Melissa Cradic
Writer: Shane M. Thompson



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Saint Patrick was a real guy...a 5th century bishop to the Christian communities in Ireland. But the notion that he was the FIRST Christian missionary to Ireland is actually not true. Christianity was in Ireland decades before Patrick's career.

Uploaded 17-03-17

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Celtic statue: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celts#/media/File:Keltenf%C3%BCrst_Glauberg_Gesicht_2.jpg

Celtic bowl: Credit to Malene Thyssen. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gundestrupkarret1.jpg

Leprechaun picture and Parade picture: Credit to Daniel Ramirez at Waikiki St. Patricks Day Parade

Lullingstone Villa image: Credit to Captmondo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LullingstonVilla-Kent_Interior_May2001.jpg

Lullingstone Villa Fresco: Credit to user Udimu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lullingstone_paintings2.jpg

Celtic Viking pic: Credit to user Noah Sachs. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Viking_at_the_Whiskey_Priest,_Boston,_Massachusetts.JPG



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Uploaded 16-05-24

Vesak is celebrated by millions of Buddhists around the world. A day commemorating the birth, awakening, and death of the Buddha. Special thanks to @gunnertravel for his Singapore footage!

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00:00 Intro
2:08 Unknown Historical Origins of Vesak
3:10 Vesak Rituals and Practices
6:06 Buddhist Modernism and Vesak
9:57 Growth of Vesak

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Uploaded 16-06-20

Co-written by Dr. David McConeghy, scholar of religion in the United States. Follow him on Twitter @dmcconeghy.

American Civil Religion Series:
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49n90lWi0s&feature=youtu.be
Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4AHNAnSbCc&feature=youtu.be
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Uploaded 19-10-23

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Baseball players do a lot of rituals...and anthropologists of religion have noticed. Some call it superstition, but are there other reasons why athletes might ritualize so many of their behaviors?

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Bibliography:
George Gmelch, "Baseball Magic," Society 8(8) June 1971
Michael Jackson, "Existential Anthropology," 2005.
Xygalatas, "Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living," 2022.
Stanley Tambiah, "The Magical Power of Words," Man, New Series, Vol. 3, No 2 (Jun., 1968), 175-208
Stanley Tambiah, "Form and Meaning of Magical Acts: A Point of View,"

00:00
2:08 Malinowski's uncertainty theory of magic
4:13 Pre-Performance Routines
8:06 Empirical Studies of Sports Magic
11:35 Is it Superstition?

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