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- VIDEO NOTES

Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion specialising in early Christianity and the religions of the late Roman Empire. He is also the host of "Religion for Breakfast", a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers producing informative videos on a variety of topics related to religion.

Dr. Henry joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss a number of questions: what is religion? Where does it come from? Why is it so ubiquitous?

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Sheldon Solomon on Terror Management Theory (the basis for the examples provided in this episode): https://youtu.be/wuJhD5TkX-0

More on Terror Management Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

- TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction
1:51 What is religion?
19:15 Can we do without religion?
29:15 Why religions demand personal sacrifice
42:52 Where does religion come from?
47:04 Is religion just death anxiety?
58:33 Is religion a result of danger and war?
1:06:05 Does explaining religious belief undermine faith?
1:10:37 Outro

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