Halloween and the Reformation (pt. 1 & 2 combined)

CITC season four opens with Reformation specials through October. Here is the first installment of these specials, “Halloween and the Reformation.”

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Resources referenced in this episode (in order that they are referenced):

Holidays and the Feasts

Ronald Hutton entitled the Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

W. Rordorf, Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, s.v. “MARTYR–MARTYRDOM,”

The Apostolic Fathers: A Brief Introduction, Summary, and Their Contents, 2023, https://christisthecure.org/2023/04/18/the-apostolic-fathers-a-brief-introduction-summary-and-their-contents/

Larry Bruce and E. Ray Clendenen, Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, s.v. “ANCESTORS,”

V. Saxer – S. Heid, Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, s.v. “MARTYR–MARTYRDOM

Kinney, Robert “Revelation 16: Libations of God’s Wrath.” https://credomag.com/2018/12/revelation-16-libations-of-gods-wrath/

The Ancient Roman Libation Tubes that Connected the Living to the Dead, Teresa Bitler, 2019, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-libations-on-graves

Bartlett, Robert. Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2019/10/08/the-martyrologium-poeticum-of-ps-bede-a-k-a-the-metrical-calendar-of-york/

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2019/10/10/all-saints-day-alcuin-in-800-ad-exhorts-his-friend-to-celebrate-it-on-1st-november/

Hallow’s Etymology, https://www.etymonline.com/word/hallow#etymonline_v_1398

Halloween etymology, https://www.etymonline.com/word/Halloween

M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, and G. C. Wakker, Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry, 131-162.

Antonaccio, Carla M. “Contesting the Past: Hero Cult, Tomb Cult, and Epic in Early Greece.” American Journal of Archaeology 98, no. 3 (1994): 389–410. https://doi.org/10.2307/506436

Joel Green and Lee Martin McDonald, eds., The World of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013), p. 109-111

Bartlett, Robert. Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. Princeton University Press, 2013, 609.

Augustine, The City of God, 22:10

Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints, p. 156

Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 23:340.

Heming, Carol Piper. Protestants and the Cult of the Saints: In German-Speaking Europe, 1517–1531. Vol. 65. Penn State University Press, 2003, 4.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-the-difference-between-veneration-and-worship.html

James P. “Holy Time and Sacred Space in Puritan New England.” American Quarterly 32, no. 1 (1980): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/2712497.

Santino, Jack. “Halloween in America: Contemporary Customs and Performances.” Western Folklore 42, no. 1 (1983): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/1499461.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-twisted-transatlantic-tale-of-american-jack-o-lanterns

https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/media/articles/truth-about-halloween/

https://www.history.com/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins#

https://www.britannica.com/topic/modern-Paganism

https://cosmicdrifters.com/samhain-festival-how-to-celebrate-this-pagan-tradition/#:~:text=Most%20Wiccans%20create%20a%20specific,such%20as%20bones%20or%20ashes.

https://www.gaia.com/article/modern-paganism-13-rituals-celebrate-samhain

https://www.learnreligions.com/is-halloween-satanic-95881

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/seasons-and-feast-days/all-saints-20377

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