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