Introduction

Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion specializing in early Christianity and the religions of the late Roman Empire. He also founded Religion for Breakfast, a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers which offers introductory material on a variety of topics related to religion. In this conversation you can expect to hear us ask, what is religion? What counts as religion? Can political ideologies like nationalism at least sometimes be considered religious? We also talk about the concept of atheist churches, why they exist and whether or not they can provide the same thing that religion does for people who don't believe in God. Finally, theories about why religion is so ubiquitous across all human societies and where it might come from,. evolution