Crash Course Religions - Season 1

Crash Course Religions - Season 1

First aired: 9/10/2024 24 episodes
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Episodes

Episode 1

1. What Even IS a Religion?

Aired: 9/10/2024

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

Episode 2

2. How Many Religions Are There?

Aired: 9/17/2024

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

Episode 3

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

Aired: 9/24/2024

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

Episode 4

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

Aired: 10/1/2024

Is there really a difference between magic and religion?

Episode 5

5. The Infinite Stories of Hinduism

Aired: 10/8/2024

What does it mean to be Hindu?

Episode 6

6. Life, the Universe, and the Buddha

Aired: 10/15/2024

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

Episode 7

7. Can a River Be A Person?

Aired: 10/22/2024

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

Episode 8

8. What Does it Mean to Be Jewish

Aired: 10/29/2024

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Episode 9

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

Aired: 11/5/2024

Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.

Episode 10

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

Aired: 11/12/2024

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

Episode 11

11. Religions of the African Diaspora

Aired: 11/19/2024

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

Episode 12

12. Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?

Aired: 11/26/2024

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

Episode 13

13. Is Atheism a Religion?

Aired: 12/3/2024

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

Episode 14

14. How Do Religious Texts Work?

Aired: 12/10/2024

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

Episode 15

15. What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?

Aired: 12/17/2024

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

Episode 16

16. Who Speaks for a Religion?

Aired: 1/7/2025

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

Episode 17

17. Death and Afterlife Across Religions

Aired: 1/14/2025

Everybody dies—and then what?

Episode 18

18. Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural

Aired: 1/21/2025

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

Episode 19

19. Are Science and Religion Compatible?

Aired: 1/28/2025

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?

Episode 20

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

Aired: 2/4/2025

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

Episode 21

21. What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?

Aired: 2/11/2025

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

Episode 22

22. Visions of the End of the World

Aired: 2/18/2025

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

Episode 23

23. What Does Religious Freedom Mean?

Aired: 2/25/2025

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

Episode 24

24. Religions and Pop Culture

Aired: 3/4/2025

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