Episodes List
Ep.1 What Even IS a Religion?
Air Date: 2024-09-10
Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?
Ep.2 How Many Religions Are There?
Air Date: 2024-09-17
Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice.
Ep.3 What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?
Air Date: 2024-09-24
What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?
Ep.4 What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?
Air Date: 2024-10-01
Is there really a difference between magic and religion?
Ep.5 The Infinite Stories of Hinduism
Air Date: 2024-10-08
What does it mean to be Hindu?
Ep.6 Life, the Universe, and the Buddha
Air Date: 2024-10-15
Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.
Ep.7 Can a River Be A Person?
Air Date: 2024-10-22
What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?
Ep.8 What Does it Mean to Be Jewish
Air Date: 2024-10-29
What does it mean to be Jewish?
Ep.9 Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity
Air Date: 2024-11-05
Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.
Ep.10 The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond
Air Date: 2024-11-12
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.
Ep.11 Religions of the African Diaspora
Air Date: 2024-11-19
African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou
Ep.12 Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?
Air Date: 2024-11-26
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!
Ep.13 Is Atheism a Religion?
Air Date: 2024-12-03
We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?
Ep.14 How Do Religious Texts Work?
Air Date: 2024-12-10
Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.
Ep.15 What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?
Air Date: 2024-12-17
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.
Ep.16 Who Speaks for a Religion?
Air Date: 2025-01-07
Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?
Ep.17 Death and Afterlife Across Religions
Air Date: 2025-01-14
Everybody dies—and then what?
Ep.18 Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural
Air Date: 2025-01-21
What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?
Ep.19 Are Science and Religion Compatible?
Air Date: 2025-01-28
Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?
Ep.20 What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?
Air Date: 2025-02-04
What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?
Ep.21 What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?
Air Date: 2025-02-11
In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.
Ep.22 Visions of the End of the World
Air Date: 2025-02-18
How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.
Ep.23 What Does Religious Freedom Mean?
Air Date: 2025-02-25
We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?
Ep.24 Religions and Pop Culture
Air Date: 2025-03-04
We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.
