#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to Within Reason.
0:01.7	My name is Alex O'Connor, and you're about to hear a conversation between me and Andrew Mark Henry.
0:07.1	Dr Henry is a scholar of religion, specializing in early Christianity and the religions of the
0:11.5	late Roman Empire, but also the founder and host of
0:14.4	Religion for Breakfast, a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers which offers
0:19.8	introductory material on a variety of topics related to religion.
0:24.0	In this conversation you can expect to hear us ask,
0:26.0	what is religion?
0:28.0	What counts as religion?
0:30.0	Can political ideologies like nationalism, at least sometimes be considered religious.
0:35.6	We also talk about the concept of atheist churches, why they exist and whether or not they can
0:40.3	provide the same thing that religion does for people who don't believe in God.
0:44.0	I also bring up the connection between this and Slavo Jijek's theory of Diet Coke.
0:48.7	Finally, the origin of religion.
0:51.2	Theories about why religion is so ubiquitous across all human societies and where it might come
0:56.4	from evolutionarily and psychologically speaking.
0:59.6	I hope you enjoy it. Andrew Mark Henry. Thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:17.0	Thanks for having me.
1:18.0	We're going to start quite broad here. What is religion? So you're starting with like the the ultimate
1:26.9	annoyance for religious studies scholars which is we just can't seem to define it
1:30.8	which seems to be self-defeating that you go and get a PhD in this field
1:34.7	that people can't even decide on what to define.
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