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The Most Painful Religious Rituals

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  • description: Join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Check out my favorite religious studies books: https://www.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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRdi0hNqVSw&feature=youtu.be Full picture: https://www.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!: https://www.patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One time donations: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Follow me on Twitter: @andrewmarkhenry Other photo credits: Wikimedia Commons, tajai : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15ème_Fête_de_Ganesh_(4939345552).jpg | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thaipusam7.jpg Bibliography: Dimitris Xygalatas, "How Extreme Rituals Forge Intense Social Bonds," https://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 https://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.
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