Crash Course Religions
Season 1
202424 episodes
Episodes
E1What Even IS a Religion?
2024-09-10 · 11m
Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?
E2How Many Religions Are There?
2024-09-17 · 12m
Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice.
E3What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?
2024-09-24 · 10m
What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?
E4What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?
2024-10-01 · 12m
Is there really a difference between magic and religion?
E5The Infinite Stories of Hinduism
2024-10-08 · 11m
What does it mean to be Hindu?
E6Life, the Universe, and the Buddha
2024-10-15 · 11m
Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.
E7Can a River Be A Person?
2024-10-22 · 11m
What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?
E8What Does it Mean to Be Jewish
2024-10-29 · 13m
What does it mean to be Jewish?
E9Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity
2024-11-05 · 12m
Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.
E10The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond
2024-11-12 · 11m
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.
E11Religions of the African Diaspora
2024-11-19 · 11m
African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou
E12Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?
2024-11-26 · 12m
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!
E13Is Atheism a Religion?
2024-12-03 · 11m
We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?
E14How Do Religious Texts Work?
2024-12-10 · 11m
Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.
E15What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?
2024-12-17 · 12m
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.
E16Who Speaks for a Religion?
2025-01-07 · 12m
Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?
E17Death and Afterlife Across Religions
2025-01-14 · 12m
Everybody dies—and then what?
E18Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural
2025-01-21 · 13m
What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?
E19Are Science and Religion Compatible?
2025-01-28 · 12m
Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?
E20What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?
2025-02-04 · 12m
What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?
E21What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?
2025-02-11 · 11m
In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.
E22Visions of the End of the World
2025-02-18 · 12m
How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.
E23What Does Religious Freedom Mean?
2025-02-25 · 12m
We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?
E24Religions and Pop Culture
2025-03-04 · 12m
We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.