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Join our online guest lecture: Environmental Catastrophe, The Fall of Rome, and the Rise of Christianity with Dr. Travis Proctor!: https://www.religiondepartment.com/environmental-catastrophe

Uploaded 04-05-25

What happens when a pope dies? Who picks the next one—and how? From locked doors to smoke signals, discover the secretive process behind the papal conclave.

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An example of a magical text from the 5th century CE. What can it tell us about the beliefs and practices of ancient individuals living in Greco-Roman Egypt?

Uploaded 01-03-16

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Images/Videos Bibliography:

Cicero: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Tullius_Cicero#/media/File:Cicero_-_Musei_Capitolini.JPG

Experiment: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chemistry_experiments#/media/File:Universidad_San_Pedro_practica_de_Qu%C3%ADmica_I.jpg

Antikythera Mechanism Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI

Bending Visible Light Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtKBzwKfP8E



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"Ritual." We all think we know what it means...right? Ritual, though, is a lot more complicated than you think.

Uploaded 05-07-16

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Image Attributions:
Fasting Buddha: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fasting_Buddha#/media/File:Siddhartha_Gautama_meditating.PNG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Prayer_in_art#/media/File:Teodor_Axentowicz,_Anachoreta.jpg

wedding: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marriage#/media/File:%22The_Moldavian_wedding%22_(the_end_of_60th_years)._(6149079487).jpg

Orthodox Eucharist: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eucharist#/media/File:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_(1801436812).jpg

Eucharist portions: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Communion_Baptist.jpg

Army priest: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eucharist#/media/File:US_Navy_041024-N-6495K-028_Chaplain_Lt._John_Burnette_prays_over_the_Blood_and_Body_of_Christ_during_Sunday_Roman_Catholic_Mass_aboard_the_Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier_USS_Harry_S._Truman_(CVN_75).jpg

Altar pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eucharist#/media/File:StJamesAltar.jpg



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We have passed 6000 subscribers and are growing more every day! Thank you so much everyone for supporting Religion for Breakfast. Religious literacy is needed more than ever in this day and age, and I hope, in some small way, RFB can help.

Uploaded 31-08-17

All summer I have been working at the Newseum Institute's Religious Freedom Center developing educational material for religious studies teachers. Part of this project involved creating videos on a variety of religious studies topics. So stay tuned in the coming months, and you will see some new videos in this different format. I hope you like them!

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Uploaded 01-08-24

This video was made possible through the support of Grant 61928 from the John Templeton Foundation managed by The Queen’s University of Belfast. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation or The Queen’s University of Belfast.

Production Team:
Producers: Andrew Aghapour, Andrew Henry
Writers: Rachel Carbonara, Andrew Henry, Evan Stewart
Consultant Scholar: Hugh Turpin
Editor: Lachlan Davis
Production Assistant: Casey A'Hearn


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00:00 Intro
1:25 Complicating the basic definition
6:20 Diversity of atheism and nonreligion
8:03 Atheism as a worldview and identity
11:59 More on Atheism as a social identity
15:34 Patreon plug



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Uploaded 30-09-20

This series was co-written by Kaitlyn Ugoretz, scholar of Japanese religion and new media. Follow her on Twitter @KaitlynUgoretz and learn more about her research on Shinto at www.digitalshinto.com."

What is Shinto? This is Episode 1 of a 5-part series introducing what some call the indigenous Japanese religion. What is it all about? What are kami? And how do people practice it?



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Uploaded 22-05-25

Shoutout to Paul Davidson for writing this episode. Check out his amazing YouTube channel @InquisitiveBible

Who was Nimrod, the Bible’s mighty hunter and empire-builder? Some scholars think he’s more than myth—maybe even Sargon of Akkad, one of the great kings of Mesopotamia. In this video, we explore the mystery behind one of Genesis’s most enigmatic figures.

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00:00 Intro
1:15 Nimrod in the Table of Nations
5:12 Sargon of Akkad Theory
7:07 Ninurta Theory
10:03 Later Identities of Nimrod
15:38 Nimrod = Zoroaster?



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The ancients blamed all sorts of medical problems on demons: headaches? stomach pain? eye infection? They would say a demon caused it. But why associated demons with medicine?

Uploaded 31-10-17

This show is funded by generous supporters on Patreon. Please consider donating at www.patreon.com/religionforbreakfast

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This is the 2nd part of my interview with Dr. Connor Wood talking about the Modeling Religion Project. Please check out the first half here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUFBCtlz_A

Uploaded 19-04-16

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com


Links to this research!:

Science On Religion Blog: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/

Connor Wood Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connor-wood/how-can-computer-models-h_b_9358258.html

Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion: https://www.ibcsr.org/

Jenn Lindsay: http://jennlindsay.com/


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Satanism is a widely misunderstood tradition. Misconceptions about it are influenced, in part, by a moral panic that swept through the US in the 1980s and 1990s. But what really is Satanism?

Uploaded 28-06-18

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Bibliography:

Jenny Reichert and James Richardson, “Decline of a Moral Panic: A social psychological and socio-legal Examination of the Current Status of Satanism,” Nova Religio 16:2 (2012) 47-63.

Jesper Aargaard Petersen, "Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology," Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

David Frankfurter, "Evil Incarnate," Princeton University Press, 2008.

Geraldo Rivera, "Devil Worship," NBC Special

Short article on Rivera's special: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5829171/when-geraldo-rivera-took-on-satanism-and-a-very-confused-ozzy-osbourne

Excellent Vox article on the history of the Satanic panic: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained



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