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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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Check out St. Patrick's "Confessio:" http://www.confessio.ie/etexts/epistola_english#

Photo Attributions:

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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Uploaded 07-04-24

Solar eclipses are cool, but for most of human history in many religions, they were viewed as extremely dangerous.

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Bibliography:
Lange and McLeish, "Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts," Oxford University Press: 2024.
Littmann, Espenak, Willcox, "Totality: Eclipses of the Sun," 3rd edition, 2009.
Dowd and Milbrath, "Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica," University of Colorado: 2015.
Milbrath, "Eclipse Imagery in Mexica Sculpture of Central Mexico," Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 39, 479-502: 1995.
Emil Khalisi, "Eclipses in the Aztec Codices," 2020.
Ross, "Eclipses and the Precipitation of Conflict: Deciphering the Signal to Attack," in The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome." 2016.

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Uploaded 10-05-24

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Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism.

00:00 A Greco-Bactrian Buddhist Inscription
1:41 The Hellenistic "Far East"
4:10 Pyrrho: A Buddhist for Greece?
7:42 Ashoka and his Dharma Conquest
10:23 King Menander: The Most Famous Greek Buddhist
13:26 Greco-Buddhist Art of Gandhara
15:23 Syncretism?
16:44 Nebula! Indie creators being awesome

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Infographic designed by Simon E. Davies. Follow him on Twitter here: @Simon_E_Davies and Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Mythopia1

Uploaded 28-02-20

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Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should we categorize it?

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Bibliography:

Source for the infographic: https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/30/map-world-religions/

Bill Sillar. "The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes"

Bruno Latour, “An Attepmt at a ‘Compositionist Manifesto,” http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/120-NLH-finalpdf.pdf

Charles Darwin to E.B. Tylor, September 24, 1871.

E.B. Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” 1871

Harvey, Graham. 2005. Animism: Respecting the Living World (London: Hurst and co.; New York: Columbia University Press; Adelaide: Wakefield Press)

Liam Sutherland, “An Evaluation of Harvey’s Approach to Animism and the Tylorian Legacy,” https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/02/17/liam-sutherland-an-evaluation-of-harvey%e2%80%99s-approach-to-animism-and-the-tylorian-legacy/

Russell McCutcheon, “Studying Religion: An Introduction."

Stewart Guthrie, “On Animism,” Current Anthropology, 41, no. 1 (February 2000), 1016-107, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/300107?mobileUi=0&journalCode=ca



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According to the Gospel of Matthew, the magi bring gold, frankincense, and myrrh as expensive gifts to the young Jesus. We all know what gold is, but what is this frankincense and myrrh stuff? What did the ancients use it for?

Uploaded 20-12-16

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Further Reading:

Dr. Sarah Bond's article: https://marquettehistorians.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sweat-of-the-gods-frankincense-and-myrrh-in-antiquity/

Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey: "Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination"

Ambrose quote from his "Exposition of the Christian Faith," ch. IV.31: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf210.iv.iv.iii.v.html

Incense altar painting from Aldobrandini Wedding Fresco found in Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldobrandini_Wedding


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Uploaded 16-02-16

Religion for Breakfast believes everyone should know a little bit more about religion. It touches every aspect of human civilization—our art, politics, history, and culture. It has inspired some of our most ethereal music. It has motivated some of our greatest leaders. And, yes, it has also sparked some of our biggest wars and social injustices. But for something that is so important to human history, how much do we really know about religion?

In order to navigate the pluralism and complexity of the 21st-century religious landscape, Religion for Breakfast strives to boost our religious literacy by producing high-quality educational videos on a variety of religious studies topics. Our topics range from ancient Christianity to modern religious theory, though we hope to expand our offerings as the channel grows.

We handle each topic with the utmost respect, recognizing that discussions about religion often evoke powerful emotions and opinions. This, however, proves the vital importance of religious literacy. If we care so much about this topic, we better know something about it! To that end, we invite you to pledge financial support for Religion for Breakfast. With your help, we can raise the level of conversation about religion on YouTube!



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Uploaded 01-08-19

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Whether we're talking about race or economic class, most religious congregations in the United States are super homogeneous. This reflects the sociological principle called "homophily," or in simpler terms, "birds of a feather flock together." But why is this? Why are religious congregations so divided?

Special thanks to Dr. Tricia Bruce for co-writing this episode. You can find her on Twitter: @TriciaCBruce or her website: triciabruce.com. Also check out her book "Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church."

This video was brought to you, in part, by support from Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation and hosted by Northeastern University:
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