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Uploaded: 17 Oct 2016 (10 years ago) · Shared: 03 Sep 2017
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Uploaded: 17 Oct 2016 (10 years ago) · Shared: 03 Sep 2017
Duration: 8:02
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Halloween was not always a holiday of candy, costumes, and parties. Its history stretches back almost two thousand years. But what is this history?And what extent can we call Halloween a Christian holiday...if at all?
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Bibliography and image credits:
Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, 2002.
Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, 1994.
Souling picture: https://archive.org/details/cheshiresheafbe01browgoog
Oengusso calendar: https://ia802604.us.archive.org/10/items/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft/martyrologyofoen29oenguoft.pdf
Halloween Frolics painting: http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/halloween-frolics-189976
Guy Fawkes Effigy pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:November_Effigies_(6833391028).jpg
Most other images came from Stephen Reid. An artist from the early 20th century who specialized in paintings of Celtic mythology.
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Who are ReligionForBreakfast?ReligionForBreakfast is an educational channel dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion. We strive to raise the level of conversation about religion on YouTube by exploring surprising facts about humanity's beliefs and rituals through an anthropological, sociological, and archaeological lens. Here at RFB we respect everyone: religious, non-religious, and everyone in between.
What is Pagan?Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians. It was applied on populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Pagan and paganism were pejorative terms for the same polytheistic group, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", and for much of its history was a derogatory term. Both during and after the Middle Ages, pagan was a pejorative term that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).
