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ReligionForBreakfast

ReligionForBreakfast is an educational channel devoted to the academic, non-sectarian study of religion. Its stated aim is to improve public religious literacy by exploring human beliefs and rituals through anthropological, sociological and archaeological lenses. The host is Dr Andrew M. Henry, a scholar of religious studies whose research focuses on early Christianity and late Roman religion, and who earned his PhD at Boston University. The channel sets out a rule at the start and then keeps it: it endorses no particular religious tradition and no non-religious perspective. That is what lets it move without friction from the gods of pre-Islamic Arabia to the question of Asherah and her possible link to the Israelite deity, from Buddhist presence in the Roman Empire to Plato's influence on Christian theology. The same methodological neutrality governs contemporary subjects: whose religion counts as American, whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation, whether babies are born atheists, what remains in a person after leaving religion. Another strand treats popular culture as a legitimate object of study: why some evangelicals looked for 666 in barcodes, what The Mandalorian gets right about real-world religions, what the Odyssey gets wrong about Bronze Age Greek religion. Several episodes are made with guest researchers. The material is openly designed for teaching: the channel invites instructors to link to it in syllabi and classrooms. Visitors will find university-level explanation in the best sense, with proselytising in no direction at all.