Episode 1
What Even IS a Religion?
2024-09-10 • 11 min
Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?
TV season
2024-09-10
Episode 1
2024-09-10 • 11 min
Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?
Episode 2
2024-09-17 • 12 min
Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice.
Episode 3
2024-09-24 • 10 min
What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?
Episode 4
2024-10-01 • 12 min
Is there really a difference between magic and religion?
Episode 5
2024-10-08 • 11 min
What does it mean to be Hindu?
Episode 6
2024-10-15 • 11 min
Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.
Episode 7
2024-10-22 • 11 min
What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?
Episode 8
2024-10-29 • 13 min
What does it mean to be Jewish?
Episode 9
2024-11-05 • 12 min
Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.
Episode 10
2024-11-12 • 11 min
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.
Episode 11
2024-11-19 • 11 min
African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou
Episode 12
2024-11-26 • 12 min
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!
Episode 13
2024-12-03 • 11 min
We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?
Episode 14
2024-12-10 • 11 min
Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.
Episode 15
2024-12-17 • 12 min
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.
Episode 16
2025-01-07 • 12 min
Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?
Episode 17
2025-01-14 • 12 min
Everybody dies—and then what?
Episode 18
2025-01-21 • 13 min
What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?
Episode 19
2025-01-28 • 12 min
Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?
Episode 20
2025-02-04 • 12 min
What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?
Episode 21
2025-02-11 • 11 min
In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.
Episode 22
2025-02-18 • 12 min
How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.
Episode 23
2025-02-25 • 12 min
We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?
Episode 24
2025-03-04 • 12 min
We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.