Ritual Nudity in History and Religion

Ritual Nudity in History and Religion - Ronald Hutton

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This lecture looks at the role played by nudity in European religion and magic from ancient times to the present, with some reference to a global context.
It reveals the unexpected pattern and explains why it has been marginal to religion, except in initiation ceremonies, but very important in magical practices.
This lecture was recorded by Ronald Hutton on 6th March 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Ronald is Gresham Professor of Divinity.
He is also Professor of History at the University of Bristol.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/r...
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@khaledadams4329 Ай бұрын

Nothing gets my attention like a lesson on the weirdness of our past with Professor Hutton.

@sugarpuddin Ай бұрын

He speaks with authority yet has no experience. Like a professor of business who never built or run an actual business.

@lizb2637 Ай бұрын

Yeah why isn’t he 1000 years old or have a Time Machine, then he could have experience with the past cultures he speaks with such authority about! Lol

@kp6215 Ай бұрын

Me Too 😁

@khaledadams4329 Ай бұрын

@St.Buddha_Brahman-Sun_of_Light Very true. :)

@unclemontypython Ай бұрын

Ronald is one of the hardest-working men in his field, and to be gifted with a fresh hour of him talking is always a pure delight. National treasure.

@HLBear Ай бұрын

International treasure. 😊❤

@unclemontypython Ай бұрын

@@HLBear You are quite correct!

@inregionecaecorum Ай бұрын

As I have said before, never a dull moment in his lectures.

@josephturner7569 Ай бұрын

Granny Weatherwax had very definite views on this kind of thing.

@paganbaby7777 Ай бұрын

With quite a few remarks concerning the weather, nettles and the occasional hedgehog

@aprilcalhoun8984 Ай бұрын

I do miss Granny

@josephturner7569 Ай бұрын

@@paganbaby7777 And you know what they say about hedgehogs.

@josephturner7569 Ай бұрын

@@aprilcalhoun8984 And her alter ego 😞. But, you know. The Creators final message. (No. Not that one 🙄).

@sosukelele Ай бұрын

Unfortunately I am obligated to watch all of Professor Hutton's lectures to see if he ever misses. Yet to witness it

@missbornlucky6676 Ай бұрын

listening to Professor Hutton's lecture has always been and will always be a delight for me

@louisemay974 Ай бұрын

Thank you Gresham College. Another marvellous Professor Hutton talk, the man is indeed a national treasure - just wonderful.

@minui8758 Ай бұрын

Ok the bit on the initiation of ritual for early Xian Baptism is beyond fascinating!

@NathanDudani Ай бұрын

XPian

@minui8758 Ай бұрын

@@NathanDudani I guess if we were being very pedantic it’d be ☧ian. But given the chi rho isn’t on most keyboards and everyone knows the meaning Xian is the standard abbreviation

@logiclust Ай бұрын

it's amazing how prudish people have become

@DeathRayGraphics Ай бұрын

Was there ever a more click-baity piece of art than "Magical Nudity"?

@GavinM161 Ай бұрын

Truly interesting lecture on something I had no particular interest in. Bravo Professor Hutton.

@jamiegallier2106 Ай бұрын

Always an interesting discussion with Professor Hutton.

@dinnerwithfranklin2451 Ай бұрын

Very interesting lecture. Thank you.

@user-fh6ov3wl4h 22 күн бұрын

This is such a great sociological analysis

@frankshifreen Ай бұрын

great lecture

@kp6215 Ай бұрын

I was invited to a nudist camp in 1977 had no embarrassment of no clothes but the men couldn't stop staring at me that I thought was reason why the men started these places for men's benefit never allow women power still in 2024.

@myparceltape1169 Ай бұрын

A woman seen broadcasting seed for the next year is described as a witch. The witness must have wanted some of that crop.

@deadsteve2180 Ай бұрын

Love is the Law! Love under Will.

@alexzicker Ай бұрын

more people should go on holiday to the Brazilian beaches

@sarahlynn7807 Ай бұрын

Very interesting!

@JCResDoc94 Ай бұрын

gr8 questions tonite. gr8 lecture. _JC

@gunkwretch3697 19 күн бұрын

One tradition he missed, from ancient Greece, see "The Liturgy of Love" translated by Dr John Opsopaus, referring to the teachings of Philotes, daughter of Aphrodite... but then Greeks had other orgiastic traditions with Dionysus too... This is like Greek Tantra in some ways.

@16252 Ай бұрын

great thanks

@reversefulfillment9189 Ай бұрын

We have a large nude beach in Vancouver. I always loved going there and being amongst a thousand people just enjoying the sun and being free. The kind of people that show up there are a unique breed, 👌

@caitgems1 Ай бұрын

"You dirty old man" ~Harold Steptoe

@thishandleistacken Ай бұрын

In the tradition I was in for many years (one which pre-dates Wicca but greatly inspired it and which Gardener was familiar with, the O.T.O.) a particular initiation involves going nude then being given the robe of the Order (which is handmade by the initiate before attending the ceremony).

@tracyrupp4882 Ай бұрын

Aversion to nudity is a societal construct which has not served us well, creating an unnecessary barrier between two-legged beings and the natural world. The book "A Brief History of Nakedness" is a lovely visual jaunt for those who value the sky-clad state. (Poor Conan - a lot to give up for his chosen discipline).

@djquinn11 Ай бұрын

Not if you live in a northern climate like I do.

@MendocinoMotorenWerk Ай бұрын

I clickbaited myself by reading royal nudity instead of ritual nudity :-) when glancing across the subscriptions page

@theseustoo Ай бұрын

I hope the professor has recovered from the cold he seems to be suffering from... one cannot help but wonder how he caught it... personal research, perhaps? 🤔

@hanbeihood3202 25 күн бұрын

Wonder what word(s) the Greeks of antiquity used for worship/religious rites

@ScooterFXRS Ай бұрын

As a male I absolutely believe in magical nudity and when one finds it in mutual attraction, affection, and state of being in love.

@Mario-zn2fg Ай бұрын

😊

@michaelbasher Ай бұрын

😊2

@dshe8637 Ай бұрын

How ridiculous

@Smoug Ай бұрын

@@dshe8637 silence normie

@jarrettperdue3328 24 күн бұрын

Next lecture: "How Ronald Got His Groove Back"?

@theseustoo Ай бұрын

Hmmm... the original 'Olympic Games' were all performed nude... and were offered as a sacrifice to Zeus. So I suppose this can be seen as a form of ritual nudity, offered as worship.

@theseustoo Ай бұрын

Lol! "Conan the Bashful!" I'd love to see a movie by a young Arnold Schwartzenegger playing the lead role... And maybe Sophia Loren playing the female lead... Or Raquel Welch... Or Ursula Andress... or Elke Sommer... or... or... well... the list of candidates is very long. There were a lot of beautiful women around at that time. I'd have loved to be the casting director for such a movie! 😉

@migranthawker2952 20 күн бұрын

For "Ritual" swap "we don't really know"!!!!

@cmcg9035 20 күн бұрын

Thank you for the lecture. I don't know what went on in Louisiana in the 1872, but Voodoo today does not contain magical nudity during services. There isn't the parallel with Wicca there.

@Mai-Gninwod 6 күн бұрын

I know this man's mouth sounds more than my own mother's voice

@VJacquette Ай бұрын

What about sky-clad Jains? It's not ritualistic, but the men are supposed to be nude for religious/spiritual purposes.

@gradyratliff2034 27 күн бұрын

Ordo...templi....oriensis...😊

@jeffgrove1389 Ай бұрын

The experience of nudity in nature and even more so at night takes you out of the “human” and gives you a closer approximation of an appreciation of each and everyone’s animality. In discarding the encoding inbuilt in the clothes you are wearing are laid aside. On another note - weren’t the original Olympic Games actually contested nude? Wasn’t this offering of your effort a religious offering.

@maxsonthonax1020 20 күн бұрын

What's the deal with Magical Nudity!

@life42theuniverse Ай бұрын

A ritual of spring fertility now Easter.

@HLBear Ай бұрын

Oestara, aka spring equinox.

@erickent4248 Ай бұрын

I guess there is not much evidence historically, but it felt like this speech was 90% conjecture.

@wolfa5151 Ай бұрын

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. ( Mark Twain)

@carlosgaspar8447 Ай бұрын

quotes were invented when the first tossed stone became the first tool.

@hermitthefrog8951 Ай бұрын

More likely they're just a bit randy.....

@dieterschonefeld7428 28 күн бұрын

You are always serious and of interest, however on this one You are "out biking" so to speak.

@hansleijonmarck9768 Ай бұрын

"Engineering is as close you can come to Magic." Elon Musk

@dogglebird4430 Ай бұрын

Nudity has its place. In fact, it has two places - 1. in the bath; and 2. in the shower. Let's keep it that way.

@valeriemoore9812 Ай бұрын

The Victorians would shutter and pass out.

@roughout Ай бұрын

There is nothing wholesome about public nudity. Public and common nudity robes the sanctity reserved for husband and wife private relationships. We see increasing acceptance and it represents our degrading society.

@HLBear Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your own religious mores. Now, please listen and learn about history, and other religions' beliefs. He discusses the place of nudity in early Christianity, so it may be worth your while to listen.

@dogglebird4430 Ай бұрын

@@HLBear I am an atheist and I agree with him.