Crash Course Religions

9/17/2024

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

9/24/2024

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

10/1/2024

Is there really a difference between magic and religion?

10/8/2024

What does it mean to be Hindu?

10/15/2024

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

10/22/2024

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

10/29/2024

What does it mean to be Jewish?

11/5/2024

Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.

11/12/2024

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

11/19/2024

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

11/26/2024

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

12/3/2024

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

12/10/2024

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

12/17/2024

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

1/7/2025

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

1/14/2025

Everybody dies—and then what?

1/21/2025

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

1/28/2025

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?

2/4/2025

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

2/11/2025

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

2/18/2025

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

2/25/2025

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

3/4/2025

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