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An educational channel dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion. We promote improving the public's religious literacy by exploring humanity's beliefs and rituals through an anthropological, sociological, and archaeological lens.
Site URL: nebula.tv/religionforbreakfast
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Posts: 11
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Do Near-Death Experiences Make Nonbelievers More Religious?
Published: October 23, 2026 14:53
What happens when someone who doesn't believe in God or an afterlife has a near-death experience? A new sociological study examines how nonbelievers make sense of these extraordinary experiences, develop spiritual beliefs, and seek out communities that…
How Did the Apostle Peter Die?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-how-did-the-apostle-peter-die/
Published: October 16, 2026 09:46
According to Christian tradition, the apostle Peter was crucified upside down in Rome under Emperor Nero. But where did this story come from? And what can historians actually know about Peter's death? We examine the ancient evidence and its many…
Slavery in the Bible Explained
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-biblical-slavery-explained/
Published: September 29, 2026 14:42
The Bible clearly permits slavery, but what did slavery actually look like in ancient Israel? We examine biblical law, debt bondage, war captives, chattel slavery, and the wider ancient Near Eastern context.
Why Is There a Roman Temple Under This German Shopping Mall?
Published: September 28, 2026 18:57
Under a shopping mall in Mainz, Germany lies the Roman Empire’s only known joint sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater. The curse tablets found inside blur the line between ancient magic and religion.
What Does Mary "Magdalene" Even Mean?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-what-does-mary-magdalene-even-mean/
Published: September 17, 2026 14:55
Was Mary Magdalene really from a town called Magdala? We examine the archaeology, Greek and Aramaic, and ancient Christian writers to ask whether “Magdalene” meant a hometown, a nickname, “the Tower,” or “the Magnified One.”
Laozi: How Daoism Invented Its Own Founder
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-laozi-how-daoism-invented-its-own-founder/
Published: September 14, 2026 10:37
Historians accept that Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha existed. However, most scholars think the author of the Daodejing, Laozi, is a legend. Here's how a ritual expert who advised Confucius became a philosopher, an author, an immortal, and a god.
Believing in God is Hard
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-believing-in-god-is-hard/
Published: August 31, 2026 19:48
Believing God and spirits exist and experiencing them as present are two different things. Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann calls the work of bridging that gap real-making: the prayers, offerings, and habits of attention that keep invisible beings present.
The Evolutionary Origins of Ritual
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-the-evolutionary-origins-of-ritual/
Published: August 20, 2026 11:08
Collective ritual shows up in every human society, and it’s often expensive, exhausting, painful, or time-consuming. From a simplistic evolutionary perspective, it is difficult to envision why humans started doing these behaviors. Scholars Martin Lang and…
Al-Ghazali: The Muslim Theologian Who Lost Faith in Theology
Published: August 11, 2026 10:07
Al-Ghazali was one of the greatest Muslim theologians who ever lived, though he almost lost his faith in a quest for certainty.
Why Climate Change Sounds Like Apocalypticism (feat. Dr. Susannah Crockford)
Published: August 7, 2026 11:22
Anthropologist Susannah Crockford on her new book A Perturbed System, and the religious inheritance inside climate talk. Why climate discourse so often sounds like Christian theology.
When Did the Mark of the Beast Become a Barcode?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-when-did-the-mark-of-the-beast-become-a-barcode/
Published: July 31, 2026 14:15
Revelation 13 describes a mark, 666, branded on people so that no one can buy or sell without it. How did American evangelicals come to read that as a barcode, a microchip, or a vaccine? A history of a fifty-year search, and what the text originally meant.