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Andrew Mark Henry is an American scholar of religion who hosts the YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast, which provides videos explaining religion from an academic perspective. Henry started the channel in 2014 while studying for a PhD in religious studies at Boston University , which he completed in 2020.
The First Anglecyn Church of Odin was founded in 1936 in Melbourne, Australia by Alexander Rud Mills, [1] an early proponent of modern Odinism.Mills, a barrister and writer, sought to revive what he considered the ancient religion of the "British race", which he believed was more natural and spiritually fitting than Christianity.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou (/ f r æ n ˈ tʃ ɛ s k ə ˌ s t æ v r æ k ə ˈ p uː l uː /; born 3 October 1975) is a British biblical scholar and broadcaster.She is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. [1]
Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and practices that are theorized to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period. Paleoanthropologists Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Annette Michelson believe unmistakably religious behavior emerged by the Upper Paleolithic, before 30,000 years ago at the latest, [1] but behavioral patterns such as burial rites [2] that one might characterize ...
Babylonian astronomy from early times associates stars with deities, but the identification of the heavens as the residence of an anthropomorphic pantheon, and later of monotheistic God and his retinue of angels, is a later development, gradually replacing the notion of the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains.
He specializes in the study of ancient religions, cognitive archaeology, and archaeoastronomy. William Romain is a Research Associate with the Indiana University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Managing Editor for the Journal of Astronomy in Culture.
Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, [1] the Amarna religion, [2] the Amarna revolution, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten , a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty . [ 3 ]
[299] [failed verification – see discussion] Georges Dumézil suggested that the religious function was represented by a duality, one reflecting the magico-religious nature of priesthood, while the other is involved in religious sanction to human society (especially contracts), a theory supported by common features in Iranian, Roman ...