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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.
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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.
There Were Buddhists in the Roman Empire
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-there-were-buddhists-in-the-roman-empire/
Published: July 27, 2026 12:50
Archaeologists found a Buddha in a Roman port in Egypt. It was carved from Greek marble, styled by a Roman sculptor, and dedicated by an Indian named Vasula in 248 AD. The surprising evidence that practicing Buddhists actually lived in the Roman Empire.
Did Jesus Have Brothers and Sisters?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-did-jesus-have-brothers-and-sisters/
Published: July 22, 2026 10:31
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters? The Gospel of Mark names four: James, Joses, Judas, Simon, plus unnamed sisters. Paul met James, the brother of Jesus. So why did later Christians insist "brother" didn't mean brother? A look at the evidence and the…
Mithras: Rome's Other Savior God?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-mithras-romes-other-savior-god/
Published: July 20, 2026 06:07
Thousands of Romans worshipped a god who killed a bull in a cave. They left no scripture behind. So who was Mithras, where did he come from, and what does that bull-slaying scene actually mean? A look at Rome's most mysterious religion.
Are Babies Born Atheists?
https://nebula.tv/videos/religionforbreakfast-are-babies-born-atheists/
Published: June 30, 2026 11:46
Cognitive scientists say human minds may come pre-wired for theism (agency detection, purpose-seeking, afterlife intuitions). But do those instincts actually make kids believers in gods? And what happens to kids raised without religion at all?