Season 1

1. What Even IS a Religion?

2024-09-10 · 11m

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

2. How Many Religions Are There?

2024-09-17 · 12m

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

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

2024-09-24 · 10m

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

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

2024-10-01 · 12m

Is there really a difference between magic and religion?

5. The Infinite Stories of Hinduism

2024-10-08 · 11m

What does it mean to be Hindu?

6. Life, the Universe, and the Buddha

2024-10-15 · 11m

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

7. Can a River Be A Person?

2024-10-22 · 11m

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

8. What Does it Mean to Be Jewish

2024-10-29 · 13m

What does it mean to be Jewish?

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

2024-11-05 · 12m

Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.

10. The 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.

11. Religions of the African Diaspora

2024-11-19 · 11m

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

12. Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?

2024-11-26 · 12m

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

13. Is 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?

14. How Do Religious Texts Work?

2024-12-10 · 11m

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

15. What 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.

16. Who Speaks for a Religion?

2025-01-07 · 12m

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

17. Death and Afterlife Across Religions

2025-01-14 · 12m

Everybody dies—and then what?

18. Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural

2025-01-21 · 13m

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

19. Are Science and Religion Compatible?

2025-01-28 · 12m

Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?

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

2025-02-04 · 12m

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

21. What 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.

22. Visions 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.

23. What 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?

24. Religions and Pop Culture

2025-03-04 · 12m

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