Crash Course Religions

2024-09-10

01.What Even IS a Religion?

Aired 2024-09-10

Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?

EP 02

02.How Many Religions Are There?

2024-09-17

02.How Many Religions Are There?

Aired 2024-09-17

Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice.

EP 03

03.What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?

10m

2024-09-24

03.What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?

10m

Aired 2024-09-24

What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?

EP 04

04.What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?

2024-10-01

04.What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?

Aired 2024-10-01

Is there really a difference between magic and religion?

EP 05

05.The Infinite Stories of Hinduism

2024-10-08

05.The Infinite Stories of Hinduism

Aired 2024-10-08

What does it mean to be Hindu?

EP 06

06.Life, the Universe, and the Buddha

2024-10-15

06.Life, the Universe, and the Buddha

Aired 2024-10-15

Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.

EP 07

07.Can a River Be A Person?

2024-10-22

07.Can a River Be A Person?

Aired 2024-10-22

What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?

EP 08

08.What Does it Mean to Be Jewish

2024-10-29

08.What Does it Mean to Be Jewish

Aired 2024-10-29

What does it mean to be Jewish?

EP 09

09.Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity

2024-11-05

09.Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity

Aired 2024-11-05

Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.

EP 10

10.The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond

2024-11-12

10.The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond

Aired 2024-11-12

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.

EP 11

11.Religions of the African Diaspora

2024-11-19

11.Religions of the African Diaspora

Aired 2024-11-19

African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou

EP 12

12.Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?

2024-11-26

12.Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?

Aired 2024-11-26

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!

EP 13

13.Is Atheism a Religion?

2024-12-03

13.Is Atheism a Religion?

Aired 2024-12-03

We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?

EP 14

14.How Do Religious Texts Work?

2024-12-10

14.How Do Religious Texts Work?

Aired 2024-12-10

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.

EP 15

15.What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?

2024-12-17

15.What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?

Aired 2024-12-17

Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.

EP 16

16.Who Speaks for a Religion?

2025-01-07

16.Who Speaks for a Religion?

Aired 2025-01-07

Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?

EP 17

17.Death and Afterlife Across Religions

2025-01-14

17.Death and Afterlife Across Religions

Aired 2025-01-14

Everybody dies—and then what?

EP 18

18.Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural

2025-01-21

18.Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural

Aired 2025-01-21

What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?

EP 19

19.Are Science and Religion Compatible?

2025-01-28

19.Are Science and Religion Compatible?

Aired 2025-01-28

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?

EP 20

20.What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?

2025-02-04

20.What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?

Aired 2025-02-04

What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?

EP 21

21.What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?

2025-02-11

21.What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?

Aired 2025-02-11

In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.

EP 22

22.Visions of the End of the World

2025-02-18

22.Visions of the End of the World

Aired 2025-02-18

How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.

EP 23

23.What Does Religious Freedom Mean?

2025-02-25

23.What Does Religious Freedom Mean?

Aired 2025-02-25

We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?

EP 24

24.Religions and Pop Culture

2025-03-04

24.Religions and Pop Culture

Aired 2025-03-04

We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.