ReligionForBreakfast | The Most Painful Religious Rituals @ReligionForBreakfast | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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Self-flagellation. Body mortification. Fire-walking. Global religion has bunches of examples of extreme, painful rituals. But why do humans do them?
Watch full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=dRdi0hNqVSw&feature=youtu.be
Full picture: vice.com/en_us/article/9bz875/do-anthropologists-consider-the-ice-bucket-challenge-an-extreme-ritual-106
All photographs are courtesy of Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas unless otherwise stated.
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Bibliography:
Dimitris Xygalatas, "How Extreme Rituals Forge Intense Social Bonds," aeon.co/essays/how-extreme-rituals-forge-intense-social-bonds
Fischer et. al., "The Fire-Walker’s High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual," February 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 2
journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088355&type=printable
Xygalatas et. al. “Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being,” Current Anthropology, Volume 60, Number 5, October 2019.
Join our Patreon community!: patreon.com/religionforbreakfast
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Check out my favorite religious studies books: amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast
Self-flagellation. Body mortification. Fire-walking. Global religion has bunches of examples of extreme, painful rituals. But why do humans do them?
Watch full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=dRdi0hNqVSw&feature=youtu.be
Full picture: vice.com/en_us/article/9bz875/do-anthropologists-consider-the-ice-bucket-challenge-an-extreme-ritual-106
All photographs are courtesy of Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas unless otherwise stated.
Support the show!: patreon.com/religionforbreakfast
One time donations: paypal.me/religionforbreakfast
Follow me on Twitter: @andrewmarkhenry
Other photo credits:
Wikimedia Commons, tajai : commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15ème_Fête_de_Ganesh_(4939345552).jpg | commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thaipusam7.jpg
Bibliography:
Dimitris Xygalatas, "How Extreme Rituals Forge Intense Social Bonds," aeon.co/essays/how-extreme-rituals-forge-intense-social-bonds
Fischer et. al., "The Fire-Walker’s High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual," February 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 2
journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088355&type=printable
Xygalatas et. al. “Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being,” Current Anthropology, Volume 60, Number 5, October 2019.
